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. 1968 May;11(3):311–320. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1968.11-311

Operant conditioning of eye movement in the monkey (Macaca nemestrina)1

Ralph J Berger
PMCID: PMC1338491  PMID: 4969215

Abstract

With the horizontal electrooculographic potential as the operant, four monkeys (Macaca nemestrina) were conditioned to move their eyes at high and low rates by initial use of fixed-ratio schedules of reinforcement, followed by a changeover to multiple schedules of fixed-ratio reinforcement and discriminated differential reinforcement of low rate. These differences in rate of eye movement were not observed in a control animal given the same patterns of discriminative stimuli and deliveries of the reinforcing agent independent of its eye movements.

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