Mark Bouton
Mark Bouton is a researcher in learning and author of the 2004 Learning & Memory review of context and behavioural processes in extinction.
Who they are
The work of Mark Bouton reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Pavlovian Extinction, Classical Conditioning.
Key papers
Bouton, M. E. (2004). Context and behavioral processes in extinction. Learning & Memory, 11(5), 485-494. What it reports: A review of Pavlovian extinction which argues that extinction does not erase the original learning but produces new learning that depends strongly on context.
Key ideas
Pavlovian Extinction: The fading of a conditioned response when the signal keeps appearing without the expected event.
Classical Conditioning: Learning in which a neutral signal comes to trigger a response because it has repeatedly arrived just before something that already triggered it.
Sources
- Bouton, M. E. (2004). Context and behavioral processes in extinction. Learning & Memory, 11(5), 485-494.