The conditioning connection
I.P.L. McLaren, Anthony Dickinson · 1991
Abstract The Konorskian process represents one way of implementing an error-correcting learning rule and thus anticipates selective conditioning. However, the Konorskian process, in common with other error-correcting learning rules, fails to explain why blocking is attenuated by ‘surprising’ changes in reinforcement conditions that should not augment activity in the reinforced element. Rather, the reinforcer-specificity of such unblocking suggests the operation of an associability process by which stored information about the past predictive history of the signal is expressed at the connection between signal and reinforcer elements to modulate changes in the connection weight.