Effects of breaks in the interval cycle on temporal tracking in pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 71, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 126-134

  Kohman, R ^a   Leising, K ^a   Shaffer, M ^a   Higa, J J ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Keypecking; Pigeons; Post reinforcement pause; Reinforcement omission; Temporal tracking; Timing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; MEMORY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; MALE; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 31544460929     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. C.V. Buhusi, and W.H. Meck Timing for the absence of a stimulus: the gap paradigm reversed J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process. 26 2000 305 322
2. D. Cabeza de Vaca, B.L. Brown, and N.S. Hemmes Internal clock and memory processes in animal timing J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Process. 20 1994 184 198
3. R.M. Church Timing and temporal search C.M. Bradshaw E. Szabadi Time and Behaviour: Psychological and Neurobiological Analyses 1997 Elsevier Amsterdam 41 78
4. R.M. Church, and D.M. Lacourse Serial pattern learning of temporal intervals Anim. Learn. Behav. 26 1998 272 289
5. Δ periods on responding on a fixed-interval schedule J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 5 1962 369 374
6. Δ periods on responding on a fixed-interval schedule. III. Effect of changes in pattern of interruptions, parameters and stimuli J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 8 1965 427 435
7. C.B. Ferster, and B.F. Skinner Schedules of Reinforcement 1957 Appleton-Century-Crofts New York
8. J. Gibbon Scalar expectancy and Weber's law in animal timing Psychol. Rev. 84 1977 279 325
9. J. Gibbon, and R.M. Church Sources of variance in an information processing theory of timing H.L. Roitblat T.G. Bever H.S. Terrace Animal Cognition 1984 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ 465 488
10. J. Gibbon, and R.M. Church Representation of time Cognition 37 1990 23 54
11. J.J. Higa Dynamics of time discrimination. II. The effects of multiple impulses J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 66 1996 117 134
12. J.J. Higa Rapid timing of a single transition in interfood interval duration by rats Anim. Learn. Behav. 25 1997 177 184
13. J.J. Higa Dynamics of temporal control in rats: the effects of a brief transition in interval duration Behav. Process. 40 1997 223 229
14. J.J. Higa, and J.E.R. Staddon Dynamic models of rapid temporal control in animals C.M. Bradshaw E. Szabadi Time and Behaviour: Psychological and Neurobiological Analyses 1997 Elsevier 1 40
15. J.J. Higa, C.D.L. Wynne, and J.E.R. Staddon Dynamics of time discrimination J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process. 17 1991 281 291
16. J.E. Kello The reinforcement-omission effect on fixed-interval schedules: frustration or inhibition? Learn. Motiv. 3 1972 138 147
17. H. Lejeune, A. Ferrara, F. Simons, and J.H. Wearden Adjusting to changes in the time of reinforcement: peak-interval transitions in rats J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process. 23 1997 211 231
18. E.A. Ludvig, and J.E.R. Staddon The conditions for temporal tracking on interval schedules of reinforcement J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Process. 30 4 2004 299 316
19. S. Roberts Isolation of an internal clock J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process. 7 1981 242 268
20. S. Roberts, and R.M. Church Control of an internal clock J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Process. 4 1978 318 337
21. B.A. Schneider A two-state analysis of fixed-interval responding in the pigeon J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 12 1969 677 687
22. R. Shull The response-reinforcement dependency in fixed-interval schedules of reinforcement J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 14 1970 55 60
23. J.E.R. Staddon Temporal effects of reinforcement: a negative "frustration" effect Learn. Motiv. 1 1970 227 247
24. J.E.R. Staddon Reinforcement omission on temporal go-no-go schedules J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 18 1972 223 229
25. J.E.R. Staddon Adaptive Dynamics 2001 The MIT Press Cambridge
26. J.E.R. Staddon Interval timing: memory, not a clock Trends Cogn. Sci. 9 2005 312 314
27. J.E.R. Staddon, and J.J. Higa Time and memory: towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 71 1999 215 251
28. J.E.R. Staddon, and N.K. Innis An effect analogous to "frustration" on interval reinforcement schedules Psychon. Sci. 4 1966 287 288
29. J.E.R. Staddon, and N.K. Innis Reinforcement omission on fixed-interval schedules J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 12 1969 689 700
30. C.D.L. Wynne, and J.E.R. Staddon Typical delay determines waiting time on periodic-food schedules: static and dynamic tests J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 50 1988 197 210
31. C.D.L. Wynne, and J.E.R. Staddon Waiting in pigeons: the effects of daily intercalation on temporal discrimination J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 58 1992 47 66