A METHOD FOR INCREASING THE REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE OF INTRACRANIAL STIMULATION

Schedules of intermittent brain-stimulation reinforcement have been shown to maintain performances when a reinforcement is defined as several response-produced, brief trains of stimulation. The present experiments show that the number of response-produced trains permitted per reinforcement is a vari...

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Published in:Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior 1967-05, Vol.10 (3), p.281-289
Main Authors: Pliskoff, Stanley S., Hawkins, T. Daryl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Brain - physiology
Consummatory Behavior
Male
Photomicrography
Rats
Reaction Time
Reinforcement (Psychology)
Reinforcement Schedule
Self Stimulation
Stereotaxic Techniques
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Summary:Schedules of intermittent brain-stimulation reinforcement have been shown to maintain performances when a reinforcement is defined as several response-produced, brief trains of stimulation. The present experiments show that the number of response-produced trains permitted per reinforcement is a variable analogous to amount or magnitude of reinforcement in the conventional food-reinforcement experiment. Systematic effects were obtained when that variable was manipulated within a multiple schedule and also on variable-interval schedules programmed concurrently.
ISSN:0022-5002
1938-3711
DOI:10.1901/jeab.1967.10-281