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. 1967 May;10(3):281–289. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1967.10-281

A method for increasing the reinforcement magnitude of intracranial stimulation1

Stanley S Pliskoff, T Daryl Hawkins
PMCID: PMC1338282  PMID: 4861901

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.

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