Topic: Rutgers Acquired Equivalence Test

This study explores the fundamental aspects of acquired equivalence learning, where equivalence develops between seemingly unrelated stimuli due to shared consequences. The Rutgers Acquired Equivalence Test (RAET) is a paradigm developed to investigate visually guided equivalence learning, consisting of a learning phase and a test phase. The basal ganglia-frontal cortex pathways play a key role in the learning phase, and the test phase is linked to the functions of the hippocampus-medial temporal lobe.We developed three additional learning tests that differ in the complexity or modality of the

In the Rutgers Acquired Equivalence Test (RAET), participants are taught to associate pairs of visual stimuli (faces and fish) during the acquisition phase. Subsequently, in the test phase, they are required to recall and generalize these learned associations. We introduced a novel test (Polygon) that employs simpler visual stimuli with less semantic content, mirroring RAET's structure. This study was conducted to examine how the complexity and semantic content of visual stimuli impact the performance of migraine sufferers.The psychophysical responses of 41 migraine patients were evaluated acr