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Basic findings on the principles of learning have served as the foundation for research and practice in applied behavior analysis since the inception of the field. As such, most if not all of the research that appears in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) could be considered "translational," an increasingly popular term in the biomedical and behavioral sciences to describe collaborative lines of basic and applied research. A number of articles and special sections in JABA reflect a growing interest in more highly organized collaborations of this sort. For example, abstracts from the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior have appeared periodically in a section entitled "Development of Basic Research and Their Potential Applications," a special issue entitled "Integrating Basic and Applied Research" was published in 1994, and review papers on basic findings in areas relevant to clinical application (e.g., choice, extinction, delayed reinforcement) have been published over the last decade (e.g., Fisher & Mazur, 1997; Lerman & Iwata, 1996; Stromer, McComas, & Rehfeldt, 2000).