Temporal Correlates of Discrimination Learning

Abstract

The relationship between human temporal behavior and learning was investigated by means of an experimental design which measured temporal behavior using the methods of reproduction and production as possible correlates for a complex-form of discrimination-reversal learning. The results indicated that the method of reproduction is a temporal correlate of original learning and that the method of production is a temporal correlate of reversal learning. The theoretical explanations proposed for these results employed the mechanisms of conditioning, extinction, and stimulus generalization, the intervening variables of excitation and inhibition and the Pavlovian levels of behavioral organization of the first and second signalling systems.