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Rats learned a temporal discrimination reversals in a discrete trial operant conditioning situation. The rats responded with equally high probability to both S+ and S− during the early parts of each session and subsequently reduced responding to S−. When responding in S− produced another S− all rats significantly reduced responding in S−.
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1. This research was supported by NIH research grant MH-06997 and the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.
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Khavari, K.A., Heise, G.A. Analysis of discrimination reversal in the rat. Psychon Sci 9, 271–272 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332217
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