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We used an appetitive sensory preconditioning procedure to investigate temporal integration in rats in two experiments. In Phase 1, rats were presented with simultaneous compound trials on which a 10-sec conditioned stimulus (CS) X was embedded within a 60-sec CS A. In Group Early, CS X occurred during the early portion of CS A, whereas in Group Late, CS X occurred during the latter portion of CS A. In Phase 2, CS X was paired simultaneously with sucrose. On a subsequent test with CS A, the rate of magazine entries peaked during the early portions of the stimulus in Group Early and during the latter portions of the stimulus in Group Late (Experiments 1 and 2). Similar response peaks were not observed on tests with a control stimulus that had been presented in compound with a stimulus that did not signal reward (Experiment 2).
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Support for this research was provided by NIMH Grant MH 070633 to A.P.B. and a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to K.S. We thank Cory Fischer for assistance with data collection and entry. Thanks go to David Stahlman, Mike Parenteau, and Caitlin Crowley, as well as two anonymous reviewers, for comments on a preliminary draft of this article, and to Peter Balsam for discussions of these studies. This research was conducted following the relevant ethics guidelines for research with animals and was approved by UCLA’s institutional IACUC.
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Leising, K.J., Sawa, K. & Blaisdell, A.P. Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats. Animal Learning & Behavior 35, 11–18 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196069
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