Active and passive waiting in impulsive choice: Effects of fixed-interval and fixed-time delays.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral interventions to improve self-control, preference for a larger-later (LL) reward over a smaller-sooner (SS) reward, involve experience with delayed rewards. Whether they involve timing processes remains controversial. In rats, there have been inconsistent results on whether timing processes may be involved in intervention-induced improvements in self-control. Interventions that improved self-control with corresponding timing improvements used fixed-interval (FI) delays, whereas interventions that failed to find corresponding timing improvements used fixed-time (FT) delays. The FI schedule includes a response contingency (active waiting), whereas the FT schedule delivers reward automatically (passive waiting). The present study compared the effects of FI and FT schedules in inter

SUBMITTER: Smith T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11239795 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature