Habituation and the reinforcing effectiveness of visual stimuli

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 184-191

  Lloyd, David R ^a,b   Gancarz, Amy M ^a,b   Ashrafioun, Lisham ^a,b   Kausch, Michael A ^a   Richards, Jerry B ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON ADDICTIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Novelty; Operant conditioning; Rat; Sensory reinforcement

Indexed keywords

HABITUATION; HOMEOSTASIS; RODENT; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HABITUATION; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84865996935     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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