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Safety signals as instrumental reinforcers during free-operant avoidance

Safety signals provide “relief” through predicting the absence of an aversive event. At issue is whether these signals also act as instrumental reinforcers. Four experiments were conducted using a free-operant lever-press avoidance paradigm in which each press avoided shock and was followed by the p...

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Autores principales: Fernando, Anushka B.P., Urcelay, Gonzalo P., Mar, Adam C., Dickinson, Anthony, Robbins, Trevor W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4138357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25135197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.034603.114