Self-Determined Stimulus Train Duration of Intracranial Self-Stimulation as a Function of Pulse Frequency in the Rat
- 1 August 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 15 (1) , 83-90
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1964.15.1.83
Abstract
Six rats with bipolar electrodes chronically implanted were trained to press a lever to deliver a brief electric shock via the electrodes to the hypothalamus. The rats were subsequently allowed to maintain the current “on” for as long as the lever was depressed. Under this condition, mean response duration was found to be a decreasing, negatively accelerated function of frequency (pps). These results were discussed in the light of recent findings by Stein of a similar relationship with respect to stimulus intensity.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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