The effects of hippocampectomy and of fimbria section upon the partial reinforcement extinction effect in rats.

Rats were trained to run in an alley for food reward given on every trial (continuous reinforcement, CR) or on a random 50% of trials (partial reinforcement, PR) and were then extinguished. Sham-operated controls showed the usual partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE), i.e., PR-trained anima...

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Main Authors: Rawlins, J, Feldon, J, Gray, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1980