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Selective Action of Pentobarbital on a Multiple Schedule of Reinforcement

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MANY demonstrations of the sensitivity of behaviour to drugs in a variety of situations have established the importance of environmental factors in determining drug behaviour interactions1. More specifically, patterns of responding that are differentially sensitive to drugs can be obtained by arranging different schedules of reinforcement2 or by manipulating the parameters of a particular contingency3.

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    D. E. BLACKMAN

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    R. J. BRADLEY

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STRETCH, R., BLACKMAN, D. & BRADLEY, R. Selective Action of Pentobarbital on a Multiple Schedule of Reinforcement. Nature 216, 92–93 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216092a0

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