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Rats were rewarded for running down a runway if the previous trial, over 16 min earlier, had terminated in a white plastic goalbox, but were not rewarded if the trial had terminated in a larger black wooden goalbox (or vice versa). Overall, the rats learned the discrimination, albeit poorly. There were six groups of two rats each; the factors were 0-, 10-, and 30-sec delays in the startbox and whether the black or white goalbox was S+. Discrimination learning occurred under each of these conditions and, contrary to concurrent interference theory, was not noticeably affected by startbox delay.
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Revusky, S., Taukulis, H. & Peddle, C. Failure to detect any effect of startbox delay on intertrial delayed-response learning. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 423–426 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329726
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