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BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages 189-205Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.02.004
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packet theory; temporal cues; time perception; time estimation
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH44234] Funding Source: Medline
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The procedures for classical and operant conditioning, and for many timing procedures, involve the delivery of reinforcers that may be related to the time of previous reinforcers and responses, and to the time of onsets and terminations of stimuli. The behavior resulting from such procedures can be described as bouts of responding that occur in some pattern at some rate. A packet theory of timing and conditioning is described that accounts for Such behavior under a wide range of procedures. Applications include the food searching by rats in Skinner boxes under conditions of fixed and random reinforcement, brief and sustained stimuli. and several response-food contingencies. The approach is used to describe how multiple cues from reinforcers and stimuli combine to determine the rate and pattern of response bouts. © 2005 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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