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Under physical conditions which optimize the S’s visual sampling of color discriminanda, monkeys appear to be little influenced by varying degrees of stimulus-reinforcement spatial discontiguity. These results are interpreted as supporting and extending the stimulus sampling explanation of spatial discontiguity effects first proposed for the observed indirect relationship between performance and stimulus-response spatial contiguity.
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1. This research was supported by research grant number HFH 3108 from the Henry Ford Hospital.
2. The author wishes to express his thanks to Mr. T. Ruthevan for his technical assistance and help in training the animals.
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LeVere, T.E. The failure of stimulus-reinforcement spatial discontiguity to influence performance under optimal conditions of stimulus sampling. Psychon Sci 11, 179–180 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328181
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