ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2021
The extinction burst: Impact of reinforcement time and level of analysis on measured prevalence.
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- Reinforcer value moderates response magnitude and persistence during extinction: A randomized trial.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Trial
- Shaping the extinction burst: Increasing its probability and preventing its emergence across topographies.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- A Scoping Review of Neurotoxic and Behavioral Outcomes Following Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Exposure in Post-Weaned Rodents.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The extinction burst: Effects of reinforcement magnitude.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Basic and applied research on extinction bursts.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2023Article
- A Theory of the Extinction Burst.Perspectives on behavior science · 2022Article
- Effects of a cue associated with cocaine or food reinforcers on extinction and postextinction return of behavior.Behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Translating quantitative theories of behavior into improved clinical treatments for problem behavior.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Relationship between engagement with the impossible task, cognitive testing, and cognitive questionnaires in a population of aging dogs.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
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Despite widespread belief in the extinction burst as a common occurrence, relatively little empirical work has focused directly on the phenomenon. In order to provide additional data on the topic, we report reanalyses of published extinction-control groups from our laboratory following training with a variety of schedules and reinforcers. In addition, two prospective experiments were conducted in which rats responded for food on FR 5 or FR 1 schedules prior to a within-session transition to extinction. The results of these reanalyses and experiments suggest that the obtained prevalence of the extinction burst was considerably greater when response rates in the first minute of the transition to extinction were considered as compared to when session-wide response rates were considered. In addition, when reinforcement time was included in baseline response-rate calculations, the obtained prevalence of the extinction burst was higher than when reinforcement time was omitted. These findings highlight the importance of measurement and definitional issues in the obtained prevalence of the extinction burst. Further, a closer alignment of such issues across basic and applied research would be desirable in terms of the development of future theories describing the processes giving rise to the extinction burst.
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