The temporal pattern of the terminal response on periodic schedules depends on when responding begins. Pigeons pecking on fixed-interval and fixed-time schedules of food reinforcement responded, or accelerated, faster the later in an interval they began responding.National Science Foundatio
Six experiments were used to examine the effects of explicit response, stimulus, and temporal depend...
peer reviewedHoming pigeons were trained under differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) or diffe...
The present study examined fixed interval reinforcement of a situational response in a shuttlebox fo...
If small portions of food are delivered to a hungry animal at fixed time intervals, most species soo...
On many cyclic-interval schedules, animals adjust their postreinforcement pause to follow the interv...
This study reexamined the processes of acquisition and extinction under periodic reinforcement. Duri...
Delivery of response-independent food during intertrial intervals (ITI) of fixed-interval (FI) sched...
Pigeons were required to produce exactly four pecks on each of two keys in any order for reinforceme...
The interresponse-time structures of pigeon key pecking were examined under variable-ratio, variable...
Two experiments examined pigeons ’ postponement of a signaled extinction period, or timeout (TO), fr...
The behavioral theory of timing assumes that timing is governed by a pacemaker whose pulses move org...
The variability in the behavioral equilibrium established by six basic schedules was characterized. ...
Two experiments used response-initiated delay schedules to test the idea that when food reinforcemen...
Three experiments examined behavior in extinction following periodic reinforcement. During the first...
The performance of rats and pigeons under fixed-interval schedules was studied in two experiments. T...
Six experiments were used to examine the effects of explicit response, stimulus, and temporal depend...
peer reviewedHoming pigeons were trained under differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) or diffe...
The present study examined fixed interval reinforcement of a situational response in a shuttlebox fo...
If small portions of food are delivered to a hungry animal at fixed time intervals, most species soo...
On many cyclic-interval schedules, animals adjust their postreinforcement pause to follow the interv...
This study reexamined the processes of acquisition and extinction under periodic reinforcement. Duri...
Delivery of response-independent food during intertrial intervals (ITI) of fixed-interval (FI) sched...
Pigeons were required to produce exactly four pecks on each of two keys in any order for reinforceme...
The interresponse-time structures of pigeon key pecking were examined under variable-ratio, variable...
Two experiments examined pigeons ’ postponement of a signaled extinction period, or timeout (TO), fr...
The behavioral theory of timing assumes that timing is governed by a pacemaker whose pulses move org...
The variability in the behavioral equilibrium established by six basic schedules was characterized. ...
Two experiments used response-initiated delay schedules to test the idea that when food reinforcemen...
Three experiments examined behavior in extinction following periodic reinforcement. During the first...
The performance of rats and pigeons under fixed-interval schedules was studied in two experiments. T...
Six experiments were used to examine the effects of explicit response, stimulus, and temporal depend...
peer reviewedHoming pigeons were trained under differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) or diffe...
The present study examined fixed interval reinforcement of a situational response in a shuttlebox fo...