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Science 23 February 1962:
Vol. 135. no. 3504, pp. 668 - 670
DOI: 10.1126/science.135.3504.668
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Relative Reinforcement Values of Food and Intracranial Stimulation

J. W. Kling 1 and Yoichi Matsumiya 1

1 Walter S. Hunter Laboratory of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Rats trained in a discrimination-reversal situation with either food pellets or intracranial stimulation as the reinforcing stimulus were not appreciably different in their first-task performance, but reversal training was slower if the first discrimination was learned with brain stimulation.


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