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Two rats were exposed to a series of fixed-interval pacing schedules of reinforcement requiring a specific interresponse time for reinforcement after a fixed period of time had elapsed since the last reinforcement. Independent manipulations of the length of the fixed interval and the interresponse time required for reinforcement showed that the postreinforcement pause and the running rate on fixed interval schedules could be independently altered. The length of the fixed interval determined the length of the postreinforcement pause, and the reinforced interresponse time determined the response rate once responding began in an interval.
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Elsmore, T.F. Independence of postreinforcement pause length and running rate on fixed-interval pacing reinforcement schedules. Psychon Sci 23, 371–372 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336158
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