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Specific antecedent barpress-response durations emitted by rats were substituted for the exteroceptive stimuli typically used in stimulus control paradigms. The resultant response-discrimination and response-generalization paradigms produced differential rates of response along a response-duration continuum. The obtained response control over responding was analogous to the stimulus control of responding along stimulus dimensions reported in the literature. The findings were interpreted as support for the conceptualization that response control represents a special instance of stimulus control in which responding is based on response-produced stimuli.
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The research was supported by Grant GB-7674 to Douglas P. Ferraro from the National Science Foundation.
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Vandell, R.R., Ferraro, D.P. Response control of responding: Discrimination and generalization of response-produced stimuli. Psychon Sci 26, 263–266 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328613
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