DISCRIMINATION AND EMISSION OF TEMPORAL INTERVALS BY PIGEONS1
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 9 (1) , 65-68
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1966.9-65
Abstract
Because the frequency distribution of IRTs showed little or no control by a DRL schedule, the schedule was modified so that the pigeon's behavior after each IRT would indicate whether or not it had discriminated the duration of the IRT. After every two pecks on a red key, the key changed to blue for 30 sec. Then it automatically became red again. Pecks on the blue key were reinforced with food on a VI schedule only when the preceding IRT on the red key had been longer than 18 sec. The birds did not selectively emit longer IRTs on the red key: the value of IRTs/op did not increase with IRT duration. However, they did discriminate the duration of the IRT emitted on the red key: the rate of pecking on the blue key was an increasing function of the duration of the preceding IRT on the red key.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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