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Cats were trained in a temporal avoidance conditioning paradigm in which a regularly occurring shock could be avoided only by jumping a barrier within 15 sec. prior to shock onset. Seventy-five percent of the animals exhibited significant temporal avoidance within 200 trials compared with 43% in an earlier study involving rabbit Ss. No difference was found between species when Ss shaving significant temporal avoidance were compared.
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1. This investigation was supported by grants to the second author from the Public Health Service (Grant MH 11723-01) and the Faculty Research Committee, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2. The authors are indebted to Mary Kidd, David Darnell and John Shea for their assistance in the data collection.
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Steinbrecher, D.C., Lockhart, R.A. Temporal avoidance conditioning in the cat. Psychon Sci 5, 441–442 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331039
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