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Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause?

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Innis, NK; Mitchell, SK; Staddon, JE
Published in: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
September 1993

On fixed-interval or response-initiated delay schedules of reinforcement, the average pause following food presentation is proportional to the interfood interval. Moreover, when a number of intervals of different durations occur in a programmed cyclic series, postreinforcement pauses track the changes in interval value. What controls the duration of postreinforcement pauses under these conditions? Staddon, Wynne, and Higa (1991), in their linear waiting model, propose control by the preceding interfood interval. Another possibility is that delay to reinforcement, signaled by a key peck and/or stimulus change, determines the subsequent pause. The experiments reported here examined the role of these two possible time markers by studying the performance of pigeons under a chained cyclic fixed-interval procedure. The data support the linear waiting model, but suggest that more than the immediately preceding interfood interval plays a role in temporal control.

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Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

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EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

September 1993

Volume

60

Issue

2

Start / End Page

293 / 311

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Reinforcement Schedule
  • Probability Learning
  • Motivation
  • Columbidae
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Attention
  • Appetitive Behavior
  • Animals
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
 

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Innis, N. K., Mitchell, S. K., & Staddon, J. E. (1993). Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60(2), 293–311. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1993.60-293
Innis, N. K., S. K. Mitchell, and J. E. Staddon. “Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause?Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 60, no. 2 (September 1993): 293–311. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1993.60-293.
Innis NK, Mitchell SK, Staddon JE. Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause? Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1993 Sep;60(2):293–311.
Innis, N. K., et al. “Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause?Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 60, no. 2, Sept. 1993, pp. 293–311. Epmc, doi:10.1901/jeab.1993.60-293.
Innis NK, Mitchell SK, Staddon JE. Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause? Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1993 Sep;60(2):293–311.

Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

September 1993

Volume

60

Issue

2

Start / End Page

293 / 311

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Reinforcement Schedule
  • Probability Learning
  • Motivation
  • Columbidae
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Attention
  • Appetitive Behavior
  • Animals
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology