A method for increasing the reinforcement magnitude of intracranial stimulation |
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| Authors: | Stanley S. Pliskoff and T. Daryl Hawkins |
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| Abstract: | Schedules of intermittent brain-stimulation reinforcement have been shown to maintain performances when a reinforcement is defined as several response-produced, brief trains of stimulation. The present experiments show that the number of response-produced trains permitted per reinforcement is a variable analogous to amount or magnitude of reinforcement in the conventional food-reinforcement experiment. Systematic effects were obtained when that variable was manipulated within a multiple schedule and also on variable-interval schedules programmed concurrently. |
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