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Operant Behavior in Vegetative Patients

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The paper is a report of operant conditioning studies with profoundly retarded (vegetative) children. The report emphasizes the unique problems in studying this population and the methods used to study operant learning in these patients.

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  • FULLER, P. R. 1949. Operant conditioning of a vegetative human organism. Amer. J. Psychol., 62, 587–590.

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  1. Medical College of Georgia, USA

    Harold K. Rice & Martha W. McDaniel

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This investigation was supported in part by Gracewood State School and Hospital and in part by Research Grant No. HD-00353-04 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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Rice, H.K., McDaniel, M.W. Operant Behavior in Vegetative Patients. Psychol Rec 16, 279–281 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393668

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