Sentence examples for peak procedure from inspiring English sources

Pigeons well trained on a fixed interval 10-s schedule of reinforcement were tested on the peak procedure.

Fixed-interval 30-s peak procedure (FIPP 30-s) (n = 12).

► Rats trained on the peak procedure (FIPP) and a control schedule were compared.

Thus the FOPP, like the fixed-interval peak procedure, is an immediate timing schedule that entails repetitive, free-operant responding.

The retrospective timing tasks used by Valencia-Torres et al. [11] entailed choice between two operanda whereas the fixed-interval peak procedure entails responding on a single operandum.

The present results cast doubt on this explanation because the FOPP, like the fixed-interval peak procedure, is regarded as an immediate timing schedule [1,2].

Rats learned to time multiple target durations using a version of the tri-peak procedure [11], [12], [18].

We addressed these questions in a tri-peak procedure by challenging rats with unexpected retention-intervals (gaps).

In the tri-peak procedure, we expected gaps to reveal the use of a single master clock or of multiple independent clocks.

Baseline tri-peak response functions peaked around the to-be-timed 10, 30, and 90-s criteria showing that rats acquired the tri-peak procedure, F 2,18) = 660.36, p<0.001 (Fig. 1A).

To account for the effect of the gap in the tri-peak procedure, we extended the qualitative description of the relative-duration hypothesis [22] to a quantitative model of the effect of retention-intervals on timing [25] [27].