Interoceptive SDof the Large Intestine Established by Mechanical Stimulation

Autor: Slucki, Henry, McCoy, Frank B., Porter, Robert W.
Zdroj: Psychological Reports; February 1969, Vol. 24 Issue: 1 p35-42, 8p
Abstrakt: A rhesus macaque monkey, surgically prepared with a Thiry-Vella large intestinal loop, was trained to press a lever for sugar pills on an FR 24 schedule of reinforcement. Operant discrimination was then established through differential reinforcement of the response in the presence of an interoceptive stimulus. The SDconsisted of rhythmic inflation-deflation (with air at 120 mm. Hg pressure) of a small latex balloon situated in the loop. The onset of the visceral stimulus was quickly discriminated but its termination was not immediately discriminable. Extended training did not diminish the continued responding or overshootbeyond the SDtermination, thus confirming our previous results, obtained by stimulating the small intestine.
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