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Neonatal dogs were trained on a go, no-go discrimination task using thermal cues and were tested subsequently for inhibitory control. Stable differential responding was obtained but more training was required, and no-go performance was poorer in comparison to previous results on a tactile discrimination. The test trials suggest that the go, no-go behavior was only under differential excitatory control of the thermal cues.
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Contribution from the Section on Comparative Biopsychology, Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior, formerly the Section on Comparative Behavior, Laboratory of Psychology. The author thanks Walter C. Stanley for his helpful comments.
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Bacon, W.E. Acquisition of a temperature discrimination in neonatal dogs. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 1, 65–67 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333342
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