scholarly journals Spacing of reinforcer delivery and effectiveness of magazine training

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 521-523
Author(s):  
Henry Morlock ◽  
Leaanne Stunkel ◽  
Keith Waldman
Keyword(s):  
Magazine Training ◽  
Reinforcer Delivery

scholarly journals Training protocol for touchscreen-based visual discrimination in mice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Goto ◽  
Yuya Hataji
Keyword(s):  
Visual Discrimination ◽  
Reinforcement Schedule ◽  
Discrimination Performance ◽  
Magazine Training ◽  
Stimulus Position ◽  
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule ◽  
Continuous Reinforcement ◽  
Contrast Discrimination ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Training Protocol

Automated touchscreen-based tasks are increasingly being used to explore a broad range of issues in learning and behavior in mice. Researchers usually report how they train mice before acquiring the target task concisely, and shaping protocols at this stage are typically flexible. In this report, we described a training protocol, developed in our laboratory, for mice acquiring a simultaneous discrimination performance using visual stimuli. C57BL/6N mice were first given magazine training. Nosepoke responses were then authoshaped and maintained on a continuous reinforcement schedule. Self-start response was then introduced in order to measure response time to complete each trial. The stimulus position was also varied across trials. We finally examined the contrast discrimination performance. Mice were tested with four different contrast ratios. Target stimuli were white and black targets and the brightness of distractors had values between targets and background. All mice successfully went through all training stages, confirming that this training protocol is promising for shaping appropriate discriminative behaviors in mice.

Exercise 1. Magazine training.

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jack Michael
Keyword(s):  
Magazine Training

Nonreinforced Response Vigor as a Function of Number of Training Rewards

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin H. Marx
Keyword(s):  
Magazine Training ◽  
Discrete Trial ◽  
Barpress Response ◽  
Affective Factor ◽  
Extended Training ◽  
Barpress Training ◽  
Response Vigor

An experiment is reported in which variation was made of number of magazine training trials perceding barpress training in a discrete-trial situation. Some support was observed for the prediction that less rather than more response vigor would occur early in extinction for the group with the most extended magazine training (12 days), but the failure of an overtraining extinction effect (OEE) to occur limits the generalizability of these results. The hypothesis upon which the prediction is based, that an affective factor declines with extended training, is contrasted with the more familiar frustration-disruption account of the OEE, from which the obtained results are not readily predictable. The data also provide evidence for a frustration-vigor effect (FVE) but only with regard to the referent (barpress) response itself, and the implications of this result are discussed.

The role of place of reinforcer delivery in the appearance of positive induction when rats respond for 1% sucrose

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey N. Weatherly ◽  
Jeri T. Nurnberger ◽  
Lisa A. Kristiansen-Moen
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcer Delivery ◽  
Positive Induction
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