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A series of experiments showed that if a subject was reinforced for responding separately to two discriminative stimuli, light and tone, their simultaneous presentation increased responding during extinction. However, if the subject was reinforced for responding to light, and tone preceded noncontingent reinforcement, the simultaneous presentation of light and tone did not increase responding.
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Meltzer, D., Niebuhr, B. Response summation and noncontingent reinforcement. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 18, 271–274 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333624
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