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A METHOD FOR INCREASING THE REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE OF INTRACRANIAL STIMULATION 1
Author(s) -
Pliskoff Stanley S.,
Hawkins T. Daryl
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1967.10-281
Subject(s) - reinforcement , stimulation , magnitude (astronomy) , brain stimulation , neuroscience , computer science , psychology , physics , social psychology , astronomy
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.