New procedure for training chinchillas for psychoacoustic experiments
作者:
Charles K. Burdick,
James D. Miller,
期刊:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(AIP Available online 1973)
卷期:
Volume 54,
issue 3
页码: 789-792
ISSN:0001-4966
年代: 1973
DOI:10.1121/1.1913661
出版商: Acoustical Society of America
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Four chinchillas were trained to lick a drinking tube located in one end of a double‐grille cage to obtain their daily ration of water. When the licking rate stabilized (4–5 licks/sec) in daily sessions of about 20 main, avoidance conditioning began. The animal was required to leave the tube and cross a midline barrier to avoid shock when one sound, the positive conditioned stimulus (+CS), was presented, while he could continue licking without threat of shock when another round, the negative conditioned stimulus (−CS), was presented. The chinchillas quickly learned a near perfect association of crossing the barrier to +CS and not crossing to −CS, which was maintained throughout the 30 daily sessions of the experiment. Intertrial crossing were virtually absent and licking rates provided a sensitive, additional measure of an animal's response to the stimuli
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