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Following bilateral ablation of portions of the fore-brain, pigeons retained their usual, pre-operative performance on the fixed-ratio component of a multiple schedule, but had strikingly abnormal performances on the fixed-interval component.
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Research supported by USPHS grants MH 08076-01 and MH 10397-01 to the University of Chicago.
A previous indication of this finding appears in C. B. Ferster and B. P. Skinner, Schedules of reinforcement. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957.
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Reynolds, G.S., Limpo, A.J. Selective resistance of performance on a schedule of reinforcement to disruption by forebrain lesions. Psychon Sci 3, 35–36 (1965). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03343004
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