The present study describes a task testing the ability of rats to trigger operant behavior by their relative spatial position to inaccessible rotating objects. Rats were placed in a Skinner box with a ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience (LIN), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, United States Considering the impact of timing and sex in determining the ...

Operant conditioning is a classical paradigm used in experimental psychology in which animals learn to perform an action in order to achieve a reward. By using this paradigm, it is possible to extract ...