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A reinforcement schedule with two types of temporal information [PDF]

MethodsX
Decades of research on reinforcement schedules have demonstrated that temporal information regarding the arrival or nonarrival of biologically significant events controls animal behavior.
Yumi Hata, Hiroshi Matsui, Yoshio Iguchi, Kazuyuki Samejima, Kosuke Sawa   +4 more
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The Effects of Quality of Reinforcement on the Resurgence of Responding [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
The current study evaluated the effects of quality of reinforcement on the resurgence of target behavior responding. We defined higher- or lower-quality stimuli in terms of reinforcer potency, and specifically by the identified extent to which a ...
Patrick W. Romani
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Multiple Schedules Facilitate Rapid Noncontingent Reinforcement Schedule Thinning. [PDF]

Behav Anal Pract, 2023
We evaluated a noncontingent reinforcement treatment that included initial brief exposures to signaled alternation of availability and nonavailability of reinforcement, followed by rapid schedule thinning. Results confirmed findings from previous research (typically with differential reinforcement schedules) that establishing stimulus control across ...
Kelley ME, Clark RJ, McGarry KM, Henry JE, Morgan AC, Gadaire DM, Sloman KN.   +6 more
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Working Memory and Reinforcement Schedule Jointly Determine Reinforcement Learning in Children: Potential Implications for Behavioral Parent Training [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Introduction: Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) is often provided for childhood psychiatric disorders. These disorders have been shown to be associated with working memory impairments.
Elien Segers, Tom Beckers, Hilde Geurts, Laurence Claes, Laurence Claes, Marina Danckaerts, Saskia van der Oord, Saskia van der Oord   +7 more
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Effect of the reinforcement rate on goal-directed and habitual choices in a multiple schedule [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Voluntary behaviors can be either goal-directed, sensitive to changes in their consequences, or habitual, lacking such sensitivity. In this study, we conducted three experiments to investigate how forced-choice training influences goal-directed and ...
Ting Hu, Shun Fujimaki, Shun Fujimaki, Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki   +4 more
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A method integrating simulation and reinforcement learning for operation scheduling in container terminals

Transport, 2012
The objective of operation scheduling in container terminals is to determine a schedule that minimizes time for loading or unloading a given set of containers.
Qingcheng Zeng, Zhongzhen Yang, Xiangpei Hu   +2 more
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5-HT1B receptor agonist enhances breakpoint for cocaine on a progressive ratio (PR) schedule during maintenance of self-administration in female rats but reduces breakpoint for sucrose

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022
Background: Previous research showed that the 5-HT1B receptor agonist CP94253 enhanced cocaine reinforcement rate during maintenance of daily self-administration (SA), but inhibited reinforcement rate after 21 days of abstinence in male rats.
Samantha N. Scott, Brielle A. Ruscitti, Raul Garcia, Toan T. Nguyen, Kevin M. Blattner, Benjamin E. Blass, Janet L. Neisewander   +6 more
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A novel human laboratory alcohol self-administration paradigm for medication screening: Modeling the ability to resist drinking and heavy drinking

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: Human laboratory analogues of drinking behavior provide an efficient, cost-effective mechanistic evaluation of a medication signal on drinking.
Sherry A. McKee, Terril L. Verplaetse
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Performance characterization of reinforcement learning-enabled evolutionary algorithms for integrated school bus routing and scheduling problem

International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering, 2021
Bi-objective school bus scheduling optimization problem that is a subset of vehicle fleet scheduling problem is focused in this paper. In the literature, school bus routing and scheduling problem is proven to be an NP-Hard problem.
Eda Koksal, Abhishek R. Hegde, Haresh P. Pandiarajan, Bharadwaj Veeravalli   +3 more
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INDUCTION BY REINFORCER SCHEDULES [PDF]

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1984
Traditional strategies for determining whether a reinforcer schedule enhances the occurrence of an activity are reviewed and critically evaluated. A basic assumption underlying these strategies is that it is possible to isolate the effect of reinforcer intermittency on schedule induction. It is concluded that this is not, in fact, possible.
P S, Cohen, T A, Looney
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