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CONDITIONED SUPPRESSION OF BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY INTRACRANIAL STIMULATION AS A FUNCTION OF STIMULATION INTENSITY 1
Author(s) -
Russell P. J. D.
Publication year - 1975
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.1975.23-277
Subject(s) - stimulation , intensity (physics) , neuroscience , electric stimulation , psychology , function (biology) , brain stimulation , electrical brain stimulation , physics , biology , optics , evolutionary biology
Conditioned suppression was demonstrated in two experiments with rats lever pressing on a fixed‐ratio 1 schedule for lateral hypothalamic intracranial stimulation (ICS). In Experiment I, conditioned suppression of responding for low‐intensity ICS was obtained with a moderate intensity of foot shock. In Experiment II, low and high intensities of ICS were alternated within the same session and the same animal. The suppression that was exhibited with low‐intensity ICS was minimal or absent with high‐intensity stimulation, despite the pairing of foot shock with each warning stimulus. Conditioned suppression was a function of ICS intensity, and was independent of response rates. The inverse relationship between ICS intensity and degree of suppression is consistent with a motivational analysis of conditioned suppression. Previous reports of resistance to suppression of behaviors maintained by ICS may now be attributed to the use of high‐intensity stimulation.