Abstract
The non-instrumental effects on baseline response rates of response-contingent stimuli (CSs) that signalled all reinforcement were investigated. Rats showed reliable suppression during auditory CSs. Pigeons exhibited reliable suppression with visual CSs but not with auditory CSs. This procedure affords' a method of investigating non-instrumental aspects of behaviour which is free from problems inherent in the appetitive conditioned-suppression technique.
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