The Hall-Rodriguez (Hall & Rodriguez, 2010) theory predicts that latent inhibition can be facilitated when a target stimulus is preexposed in compound with a second, nontarget stimulus: specifically, latent inhibition will be facilitated when the target coterminates with the second stimulus in preexposure, but facilitation will fail to occur when the two stimuli do not coterminate. The present study tested these predictions. In each experiment, rats were preexposed to a 30 s target stimulus alone or in compound with a second stimulus across its final 10 s, or they were preexposed to the context. All rats were then exposed to pairings of the target stimulus and foot shock, and finally, tested for freezing to the target. Experiment 1 demonstrated standard latent inhibition. Experiment 2 provided evidence that preexposure to a 30 s auditory target stimulus, in compound with a visual stimulus across its final 10 s, produced facilitated latent inhibition. Experiment 3 demonstrated that the latent inhibition was also facilitated when each 30 s presentation of a target visual stimulus was compounded with an auditory stimulus across its final 10 s. Experiment 4 showed that facilitation did not occur when each 30 s presentation of the target was compounded with a second stimulus across its initial 10 s, while Experiment 5 found that latent inhibition of the target was impaired when each of its 30 s presentations terminated in the onset of a second (10 s) stimulus. These findings are consistent with the predictions of the Hall-Rodriguez theory. They confirm that the facilitation of latent inhibition depends on coterminations of target and nontarget stimuli in preexposure and, more generally, that the impact of a second stimulus on latent inhibition to a target depends on their temporal relation in preexposure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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当目标刺激与非目标刺激预暴露于化合物中时，潜在抑制得到促进，但仅当两种刺激共同终止时：霍尔-罗德里格斯理论的测试。

Hall-Rodriguez (Hall & Rodriguez, 2010) 理论预测，当目标刺激与第二个非目标刺激在化合物中预先暴露时，可以促进潜在抑制：具体而言，当目标与第二个刺激同时终止时，潜在抑制将得到促进。预暴露，但当两种刺激不共同终止时，促进作用将不会发生。本研究检验了这些预测。在每个实验中，大鼠单独或在最后 10 秒内与第二个刺激组合预先暴露于 30 秒的目标刺激，或者它们预先暴露于环境中。然后将所有大鼠暴露于目标刺激和足部电击的配对，最后，测试对目标的冻结。实验 1 证明了标准的潜在抑制。实验 2 提供的证据表明，预先暴露于 30 秒的听觉目标刺激，与最后 10 秒的视觉刺激相结合，产生了促进的潜在抑制。实验 3 表明，当目标视觉刺激的每 30 秒呈现与最后 10 秒的听觉刺激混合时，潜在抑制也得到了促进。实验 4 表明，当目标的每 30 秒呈现在其最初的 10 秒内与第二个刺激混合时，促进不会发生，而实验 5 发现当目标的 30 秒呈现中的每一个在第二次（10 秒）刺激的开始。这些发现与霍尔-罗德里格斯理论的预测一致。他们证实潜在抑制的促进取决于暴露前目标和非目标刺激的共同终止，更一般地说，第二个刺激对目标潜在抑制的影响取决于它们在暴露前的时间关系。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。