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. 2018 Jul 14;235(9):2739–2753. doi: 10.1007/s00213-018-4969-6

Table 1.

Mean values ± SEM of additional measures activity for both schedule types, as well as the number of rats in each condition that completed the 45-min session without emitting a response for 180 s. Additional motoric measures are of the reward collection latencies, rate of magazine entries (magazine entries per second), and the rate of nontarget (blank) screen responses (nontarget responses/sec) for all experimental conditions. Italic type signifies significant effects

Reward collection latency Magazine entries/sec Nontarget responses/sec No. of 45-min terminations
PR4 PREXP PR4 PREXP PR4 PREXP PR4 PREXP
Baseline 1.20 ± 0.04* 1.58 ± 0.11* 0.08 ± 0.01 0.07 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.00 0.04 ± 0.01 33 14
Reward magnitude
 1 pell 1.11 ± 0.06 1.36 ± 0.09# 0.07 ± 0.01# 0.05 ± 0.00# 0.02 ± 0.00 0.03 ± 0.01 5 2
 3 pellets 0.97 ± 0.08 0.94 ± 0.12# 0.10 ± 0.01# 0.08 ± 0.01 # 0.02 ± 0.00 0.03 ± 0.01 8 6
Prefeeding
 No feed 1.39 ± 0.09 1.51 ± 0.13 0.06 ± 0.01* 0.05 ± 0.00* 0.02 ± 0.00 0.02 ± 0.00 3 2
 Prefeed 1.27 ± 0.05 1.56 ± 0.10 0.06 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.00 0.02 ± 0.00 0.03 ± 0.01 1 0
Raclopride
 Vehicle 1.23 ± 0.09* 1.63 ± 0.15* 0.08 ± 0.01* 0.06 ± 0.01* 0.02 ± 0.00 0.03 ± 0.01 0 0
 0.03 mg/kg 1.28 ± 0.06 1.58 ± 0.14 0.07 ± 0.01 0.05 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.02 2 2
 0.3 mg/kg 1.44 ± 0.19* 2.65 ± 0.72* 0.05 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.00 0.01 ± 0.00 0.02 ± 0.01 1 0
Amphetamine
 Vehicle 1.44 ± 0.09* 1.80 ± 0.12* 0.09 ± 0.01 0.06 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.01 1 0
 0.1 mg/kg 1.40 ± 0.08* 1.71 ± 0.16* 0.08 ± 0.01 0.06 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.01 1 2
 1 mg/kg 1.35 ± 0.06 1.56 ± 0.09 0.10 ± 0.01 0.09 ± 0.01 0.05 ± 0.01 0.05 ± 0.01 6 8

*A significant group difference between schedule types, p < .05. #A significant effect of increasing the reward magnitude, p < .05. A significant effect relative to the vehicle condition p < .05