Journal article
Trace autoshaping: Acquisition, maintenance, and path dependence at long trace intervals
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.36(1), pp.61-74
07/1981
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1981.36-61
PMCID: PMC1333053
PMID: 16812232
Abstract
The pigeon's tendency to acquire and maintain signal-directed key pecking under a trace conditioning procedure was parametrically examined. In Experiment 1, the percentage of CS trials with a key peck response was a decreasing function of the trace interval for separate groups of pigeons. The majority of subjects acquired signal-directed key pecking with trace intervals as long as 36 sec. In Experiment 2, differential maintenance of key pecking occurred across trace intervals in a within-subject procedure. Maintenance of key pecking at 36- and 60-sec trace intervals was path dependent in that responding depended on the subject's performance under the preceding trace interval.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Trace autoshaping: Acquisition, maintenance, and path dependence at long trace intervals
- Creators
- Gary A LucasJames D DeichEdward A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.36(1), pp.61-74
- DOI
- 10.1901/jeab.1981.36-61
- PMID
- 16812232
- PMCID
- PMC1333053
- NLM abbreviation
- J Exp Anal Behav
- ISSN
- 0022-5002
- eISSN
- 1938-3711
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1981
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070714902771
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