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The polydipsia which results when food-restricted rats are feeding on an intermittent food-reinforcement schedule is attenuated during heat exposure. This attenuation of schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) indicates that heat exposure, by stimulating salivation, offsets conditioned inhibition of salivation (dry mouth) established by the intermittent schedule.
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This study was carried out during the author’s tenure as a Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow. Thanks are due to Dr. G. J. Mogenson and Professor J. A. F. Stevenson for critical reading of the manuscript. The study was supported by an MRC grant to Professor Stevenson.
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Grace, J.E. Schedule-induced polydipsia: Conditioned inhibition of salivation. Psychon Sci 17, 28–29 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329150
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