Interval timing in rats: tracking unsignaled changes in the fixed interval schedule requirement

Autor:	Sara Moreno, Nathan L. Sparkman, J.J. Higa
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Behavioral Neuroscience Schedule Steady state (electronics) Duration (music) Statistics Interval (graph theory) Fixed interval Animal Science and Zoology Lever pressing General Medicine Time perception Psychology Wait time
Zdroj:	Behavioural processes. 58(3)
ISSN:	1872-8308
Popis:	The present experiment examined interval timing in rats under dynamic conditions. A session began with FI60 s intervals, changed to a FI20 s, FI30 s, or FI40 s schedule at an unpredictable point, and then returned to a FI60 s schedule after the rats received 1, 8, or 24 successive short FI intervals. Variations in the duration and number of shorter intervals occurred across sessions and conditions. We observed rapid control of wait time duration by the FI duration of the preceding interval (one-back tracking), and changes in wait time depended on the number and duration of the shorter intervals. Furthermore, we observed proportional and scalar timing effects in overall wait time duration. The results provide information about the relation between interval timing under dynamic and steady state conditions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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