Antagonism by baclophen of thed-amphetamine-induced disruption of a successive discrimination in the rat

1975 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 327-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ahlenius ◽  
A. Carlsson ◽  
J. Engel
1967 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Sheldon

In an attempt to confirm and extend a previous result, rats were trained on two tasks where a signal delivered at the start of each trial indicated which of two paths through a maze would be rewarded. In Experiment I both paths led to the same goal-box, and it was found that performance was better when the state of the goal-box was different on trials with each of the two signals. In Experiment II the two paths led to spatially separated goal-boxes. It was found that when the states of the two goal-boxes were discriminably different but the state of each of them remained the same from trial to trial, performance was better than when their states varied irregularly. It is suggested that these results have interesting implications for theories of behaviour.


2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Cornette ◽  
P. Dupont ◽  
G. Bormans ◽  
L. Mortelmans ◽  
G. A. Orban

Perception ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan O McGonigle ◽  
Barry T Jones

Four experiments on rats and squirrel monkeys are reported which show that the well-known transposition by animals to continuous from broken or interrupted line stimuli, first reported by Krechevsky, is attributable to their failure to transfer from simultaneous to successive discrimination of dot patterns. When given appropriate successive discrimination training, however, monkeys reverse their original preference and select dot instead of continuous line stimuli.


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