Nelson, Byron J.Carmen Sanjuan, MaríaVadillo-Ruiz, SandraPérez, JoanaLeón, Samuel P.2024-01-232024-01-232010-09Nelson, J. B., SanJuan, M. C., Vadillo-Ruiz, S., Pérez, J., & León, S. P. (2011). Experimental Renewal in Human Participants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 58-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a00205190097-7403http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0020519https://hdl.handle.net/10953/1598Two experiments with human participants are presented that differentiate renewal from other behavioral effects that can produce a response after extinction. Participants played a video game and learned to suppress their behavior when sensor stimuli predicted an attack. Contexts (A, B, & C) were provided by fictitious galaxies where the game play took place. In Experiment 1, participants who received conditioning in A, extinction in B, and testing in A showed some context specificity of conditioning during extinction and a recovery of suppression on test. Experiment 2 demonstrated recovery of extinguished responding when participants were conditioned in A, extinguished in B, and tested in C, a third, neutral context. The experiment also demonstrated that the context of extinction did not control performance by becoming inhibitory. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms that can produce a response recovery after extinction. The experiments demonstrated a renewal effect: a response recovery that was not attributable to the contexts acting as simple conditioned stimuli and is the first work with human participants to conclusively do so.engCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/renewal, extinction, relapse, context, retrievalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess