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Pavlovian conditioned inhibition training provides a method for investigating inhibitory dimensional stimulus control of the rabbit’s conditioned nictitating membrane response. The basic technique consists of reinforcing a burst of white noise while a compound made up of white noise and a tone is systematically not reinforced. Generalization tests to the white noise and a series of test tones result in a U-shaped gradient which remains relatively stable over a series of training-test phases.
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This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant GB24557 to the third author.
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Mis, F.W., Lumia, A.R. & Moore, J.W. Inhibitory stimulus control of the classically conditioned nictitating membrane response of the rabbit. Behav. Res. Meth. & Instru. 4, 297–299 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207309
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207309