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The temporal pattern of the terminal response on periodic schedules depends on when responding begins. Pigeons pecking on fixed-interval and fixed-time schedules of food reinforcement responded, or accelerated, faster the later in an interval they began responding.
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This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Duke University. These data were presented at the Fall 1974 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Staddon, J.E.R., Frank, J.A. Temporal control on periodic schedules: Fine structure. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 536–538 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337561
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