Reinforcement value and fixed‐interval performance

Buriticá, Jonathan; Santos, Cristiano Valério dos

doi:10.1002/jeab.279

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“…PRP and BP are attempts to summarize quantitatively the performance on FI schedules and have been used to measure time discrimination on FI schedules (Buriticá & dos Santos, 2017; Guilhardi & Church, 2004). PRPs were longer for the W than for the NW groups, but that difference was larger between the FI 15 s groups than between the FI 30 s and FI 60 s groups.…”

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Assessment of the ‘timing’ function of schedule-induced behavior on fixed-interval performance.

López-Tolsa¹,

Pellón²

2021

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cogniti

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It has been suggested that schedule-induced behaviors allow organisms to adapt better to temporal regularities of the environment. The main goal of the present study was to observe the effect of scheduleinduced drinking (SID) on the performance in fixed-interval (FI) schedules. Rats were exposed to a FI 15-, 30-, or 60-s food reinforcement schedule, and only half of them had access to water in the experimental chamber. Rats with access to water developed SID, which occurred in the first part of the interval, regardless of the FI value, and was followed by an increase in lever pressing rate. There were no substantial differences in the quantitative measures of timing between groups that had or did not have access to water, except for the rats in the FI 15-s group with access to water, who showed longer postreinforcement pauses, possibly attributable to competition between SID and lever pressing. SID did not manifest the scalar property, contrary to lever pressing, but it is proposed that behaviors are displayed serially until the last behavior before the target operant response becomes a discriminative stimulus for that behavior. It is not assumed that the purpose of schedule-induced behaviors is to aid timing, but the development of behavioral patterns might determine the performance of organisms on temporal tasks. Additionally, in some cases competition between responses might exert more control on when the operant behavior occurs than timing. Timing seems to consist in the temporal organization of available behaviors that leads to a specific behavior occurring at a specified time, a single characteristic that typically had come to indicate accurate timing.

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Assessment of the ‘timing’ function of schedule-induced behavior on fixed-interval performance.

López-Tolsa¹,

Pellón²

2021

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cogniti

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“…Several concepts of reinforcement value can be used to summarize the effect of different variables, such as reinforcement delay, reinforcement magnitude, and deprivation level, on behavior ( Buriticá and Dos Santos, 2017 ). Among them, reinforcement delay is the most significant and widely researched concept.…”

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Reward prediction error in learning-related behaviors

Deng,

Song,

et al. 2023

Front. Neurosci.

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Learning is a complex process, during which our opinions and decisions are easily changed due to unexpected information. But the neural mechanism underlying revision and correction during the learning process remains unclear. For decades, prediction error has been regarded as the core of changes to perception in learning, even driving the learning progress. In this article, we reviewed the concept of reward prediction error, and the encoding mechanism of dopaminergic neurons and the related neural circuities. We also discussed the relationship between reward prediction error and learning-related behaviors, including reversal learning. We then demonstrated the evidence of reward prediction error signals in several neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and addiction. These observations may help to better understand the regulatory mechanism of reward prediction error in learning-related behaviors.

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Increased generalization in a peak procedure after delayed reinforcement

Buriticá

Alcalá

2019

Behavioural Processes

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Reinforcement value and fixed‐interval performance

Cited by 3 publications

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Assessment of the ‘timing’ function of schedule-induced behavior on fixed-interval performance.

Assessment of the ‘timing’ function of schedule-induced behavior on fixed-interval performance.

Reward prediction error in learning-related behaviors

Increased generalization in a peak procedure after delayed reinforcement

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