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Rats fear-conditioned in distinctive start-boxes and allowed to escape to safe-boxes with opposite cues do not learn to hurdle jump, without shock, on subsequent days when the cues are reversed but do learn when the cues are reinstated. Other groups that, without shock, learn with the start-box cues the same, do not perform on subsequent days, when cues are reversed.
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Debold, R.C. Stimulus control of acquired fear and instrumental behavior. Psychon Sci 5, 439–440 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331037
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