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Article: Research results from Utah State University, Department of Psychology update knowledge of life sciences.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 13, 2008
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A new study, 'Matching law analysis of rats' alcohol self-administration in a free-operant choice procedure,' is now available. According to recent research published in the journal Behavioural Pharmacology, "The generalized matching law quantitatively describes the relation between relative response allocation and relative reinforcement allocation in a choice situation and has accounted well for drug-maintained choice behavior. Earlier studies applying the generalized matching law to alcohol-maintained choice, however, have produced somewhat atypical findings (e.g. poor fits, negative sensitivity values)."
"These findings may be the result of the procedures used ...