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Concurrent training is a proposed method for studying generalization by giving additional reinforced trials on new stimuli and assessing the effect on response strength to the training stimulus. Forty-seven rats run according to this method showed no difference in degree of generalization from alleys of white, light-gray, and dark-gray to black. Twenty-four rats run in the same apparatus by the usual procedure involving non-reinforced test trials did show the expected decremental gradient.
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Stettner, L., Koteskey, R. A study of stimulus generalization by the method of concurrent training. Psychon Sci 2, 197–198 (1965). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03343403
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