Recovery from the overexpectation effect: Contrasting performance-focused and acquisition-focused models of retrospective revaluation

In four Pavlovian conditioned lick-suppression experiments, rats had two conditioned stimuli independently paired with footshock, followed by pairings of a compound of A and X with the footshock. Only performance-focused models could account for how posttraining increases or decreases in the A-footshock temporal interval attenuate the over-expectation effect.