A METHOD FOR INCREASING THE REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE OF INTRACRANIAL STIMULATION1
- 1 May 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 10 (3), 281-289
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1967.10-281
Abstract
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.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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