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Some data are presented from an experimental situation in which the same S runs to continuous reward in the presence of one stimulus and to Logan’s discontinuous negatively correlated reward to another stimulus. Differences in performance to the two stimuli are in terms of average speeds and profiles of the animal’s performance across a fractionated alley.
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1. This research was supported by grants from the National Research Council of Canada (APB-72) and the National Science Foundation (GB-3772) to Abram Amsel. The authors wish to thank Gail Dichmann and Joanna Boehnert who helped collect a part of the data.
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Rashotte, M.E., Amsel, A. Acquisition and extinction, within subjects, of a continuously rewarded response and a response learned under discontinuous negatively correlated reward. Psychon Sci 7, 257–258 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331104
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