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Control of key pecking by the duration of a visual stimulus
Perikel, Jean-Jacques; Richelle, Marc; Maurissen, J.
1974In Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 22 (1), p. 131-134
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Keywords :
Animal behavior; Temporal regulation
Abstract :
[en] Pigeons' key peck were brought under the control of the duration of a visual stimulus in one-key and two-key procedures. In the one-key procedure, pecks were reinforeced after presentations of a long-duration stimulus but not after presentations of a short-duration stimulus. In the two-key procedure, left-key pecks were reinforced after the long-duration stimulus and right-key pecks after the short-duration stimulus. In both procedures, the long-duration stimulus was 10 sec, and the short-duration stimulus was increased from 1 to 8 sec in1-sec steps. Discriminative control developed with both procedures, but with greater acuracy in the two-key procedures, in which a difference threshold was obtained at short-duration values between 7 and 8 sec, or about 2.5 sec shorter than the long-duration stimulus.
Disciplines :
Animal psychology, ethology & psychobiology
Author, co-author :
Perikel, Jean-Jacques
Richelle, Marc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Fac. de psycho. et des sc. de l'éducat.) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Psycho et sc.éduc.)
Maurissen, J.
Language :
English
Title :
Control of key pecking by the duration of a visual stimulus
Publication date :
1974
Journal title :
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
ISSN :
0022-5002
Publisher :
Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Bloomington, United States - Indiana
Volume :
22
Issue :
1
Pages :
131-134
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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