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Two groups of runway-trained rats received a double-alternation sequence of reward-nonreward in a straight runway in the presence of odors exuded by startbox donors injected with Thorazine and saline, respectively. Appropriate start- and run-measure patterning was initially displayed only when the donors were saline injected. However, reversing the donor-injection condition resulted in the development of such patterning by the subjects having donors shifted from Thorazine to saline and the maintenance of patterning by the subjects having donors shifted from saline to Thorazine.
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This research was supported by a Tower Fund research grant from Austin Peay State University to the first author and a faculty research grant from Middle Tennessee State University to the second author. Portions of this paper were presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Antonio, Texas, 1978.
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Davis, S.F., Prytula, R.E. Odor-mediated runway performance of the rat as a function of Thorazine injection. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 13, 293–296 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336874
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