"Benjamin" <Benjamin from verizon.net> wrote in message
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>> Please put your two msgs together.
>> I don't want to 'guess' with respect
> to =your= experimental design.
>> [Because I've already found two
> flaws in the design, and will
> probably find more. So be sure
> it's what you actually want it to
> be before you ask me to 'solve' it.]
>> k. p. collins
>>
Ok, Ken. I'll make a one more change. When red and green are both
illuminated, a peck to one of them causes the other to extinguish and the
one pecked begins flashing. It probably isn't necessary - I myself don't do
this kind of experiment - but I'll go with that. The whole procedure, then,
is:
Start trial:
Both keys white
Peck left: Peck right :
Right key out Left key out
Left key stays on Right key stays on
T seconds T seconds
Green: Red
Green
G flashes G out red flashes R out
green flashes
4.0 s 1.0 s
4.0 s
12.0 s access to food 3.0 s access to food 12.0 s
access to food
8.0 s inter-trial interval 20.0 s inter-trial interval 8.0
s inter-trial interval
BACK TO START----------------------------------BACK TO START
In addition, periodically, there are forced trials where the animal has to
sample the contingencies programmed for one choice.
If the above doesn't show up formatted correctly, I'll repost it as a
straight description.