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The present report describes apparatus and procedures for investigating conditioned suppression of a running response in the gerbil. Data are presented which demonstrate that the conditioned suppression observed in this situation is not an artifact of alpha responses, pseudoconditioning, or sensitization. An analysis of differential conditioning indicated that cue similarity and US intensity are negatively related to cue-specific differential responding.
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This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Research Grant MH-17264 and by The National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Program, Grant GY-8807.
The authors wish to thank the following Northwestern undergraduates who aided in the collection of the data: Lee Robinson Wiscomb, Michael Spangier, David Amaral. Doreen Stasiak, Janet Zitz, Gregory Harper, Barbara Pecora, Patricia Look, and Iris Edelstein. William Gavin and Janet Zitz were NSF-URP participantS during the summer of 1971.
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Frey, P., Eng, S. & Gavinf, W. Conditioned suppression in the gerbil. Behav. Res. Meth. & Instru. 4, 245–249 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210007
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