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Nine albino rats were trained on a CRF schedule to press a lever for electrical self-stimulation reward in the forebrain. They were then taught to discriminate between an S+ (a white noise plus a light) that lasted until the animal made one reinforced leverpress and an S− (defined as the absence of the light and noise) that varied from 15 sec to 16 min in duration. The duration of the S− interval did not affect the latency of the response to the S+, except, in some cases, in the early stages of the learning of the discrimination. The results are discussed in terms of the drive-decay and the incentive models of rewarding brain stimulation.
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This research was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grants MH 10852 and MH 16046 to G. Frommer and in part by National Research Council of Canada Grant No. APA0380 to I. Lenzer.
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Lenzer, I.I., Frommer, G.P. Successive sensory discriminative behavior maintained by forebrain self-stimulation reinforcement. Psychon Sci 23, 88–90 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336021
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