Visual reinforcement of nonnutritive sucking in human infants.
High-amplitude sucking was studied as a conditioned operant response reinforced by visual feedback in 4-and 12-month infants. Typicalresponse acquisition and extinction effects were obtained. With the 12-month infants the conditioned sucking rates were influenced by amounts of redundancy in the visual reinforcers.
D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013391:Sucking Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception