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Rats were reinforced on a VI 30-sec schedule for responding on one lever during light and on the other lever during tone. Responses were never reinforced when neither light nor tone was on, and a response on either lever could produce reinforcement when both stimuli were present. Although reinforcement frequency was the same during light, tone, and light plus tone, subjects made more total responses during the last condition and shifted rapidly from bar to bar only when both light and tone were present. Response summation was interpreted as an example of concurrent schedules.
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Meltzer, D., Niebuhr, B.R. & Hamm, R.J. Response summation with discriminative stimuli controlling responding on separate manipulanda. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 31–32 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329391
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329391