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. 1971 Sep;16(2):143-54.
doi: 10.1901/jeab.1971.16-143.

The removal and restoration of stimulus control

L T Stoddard, M Sidman

The removal and restoration of stimulus control

L T Stoddard et al. J Exp Anal Behav. 1971 Sep.

Abstract

When a well-learned circle versus ellipse discrimination was made impossibly difficult for the subjects (rhesus monkeys), the controlling stimulus-response topographies were replaced by competing topographies. The identification of two training conditions sufficient to reinstate the original discrimination permitted the following inferences: the original controlling topography had merely decreased in probability of occurrence, whereas the "strength" of the stimulus-response relation remained unchanged; discriminations along the apparently continuous circle-ellipse dimension actually involved several distinct stimulus-control topographies.

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