Early-session increases in responding during extinction

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 121-129

  Tonneau, François ^a   Ortiz, Gerardo ^a   Cabrera, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Extinction; Lever Press; Rat; Variable interval schedule; Within session response pattern

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 0034705351     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00085-1     Document Type: Article

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