INTRACRANIAL REWARD DELAY AND THE ACQUISITION RATE OF A BRIGHTNESS DISCRIMINATION.
An application of the techniques of intracranial self-stimulation to the study of delayed reward indicates that the rate of discrimination learning for stimulation of the hypothalamus is a decreasing function of the delay interval. The resulting delay-of-reward gradient does not appear to differ appreciably from other such gradients based on food reward.
D004193:Discrimination Learning; D051381:Rats; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012106:Research; D012201:Reward
DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY)