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Reversal Learning Set in Successive Discrimination Reversal Learning and Transfer with Rats Using Visual and Olfactory Cues

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Hooded male rats trained on simple discriminations between odor or brightness cues learned successively to reverse between the odor or brightness cues. They were then transferred to a successive discrimination reversal (SDR) of the other modality. The transfer data indicated that SDR training with one set of cues facilitated the learning of a subsequent discrimination in the other modality.

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  1. Browning Public Schools, Browning, Montana, USA

    Richard S. O’Grady

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, 59801, USA

    Joseph W. Jennings

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Data for this report are from the first author’s Ph.D dissertation, University of Montana, 1973.

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O’Grady, R.S., Jennings, J.W. Reversal Learning Set in Successive Discrimination Reversal Learning and Transfer with Rats Using Visual and Olfactory Cues. Psychol Rec 24, 243–251 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394240

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