A method for increasing the reinforcement magnitude of intracranial stimulation.
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.
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003259:Consummatory Behavior; D008297:Male; D010784:Photomicrography; D051381:Rats; D011930:Reaction Time; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012653:Self Stimulation; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques