title: Response selection in operant learning.
abstract: We show that simple, contiguity-based, nonassociative response-selection process provides a qualitative account for both anomalous and nonanomalous properties of operant conditioning. The process can easily be extended to permit associative effects; it may therefore represent the initial processing stage for all conditioning in higher vertebrates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706, USA.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Staddon
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang