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Special Issues of JEAB

This journal has devoted an entire issue to a single topic only twelve times in its 52 years of publication. The first appeared in November 1984, the latest in November 2010. These “Special Issues” are listed below.

Because our back volumes were scanned for us by the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, we are now able to present electronic versions of all the articles in these issues.

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** Translational Research in JEAB: May 2010
Edited by Thomas S. Critchfield and F. Charles Mace


*Relation of Behavior and Neuroscience: November 2005

*Categorization and Concept Learning: November 2002

*Behavioral Economics: November 1995

*Celebrating the Contributions of Joseph V. Brady: March 1994

*The Nature of Reinforcement: July 1993

*Behavioral Dynamics: May 1992

*Behavioral Pharmacology: September 1991

*Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior: November 1990

*Experimental Analysis of Cognition: November 1989

*Behavior Analysis and Biological Factors: November 1988

*Present Trends and Directions for the Future: November 1984

November 2005
V.84(3)

Special Issue on the Relation of Behavior
and Neuroscience

Edited by
William Timberlake,
David W Schaal, and
Joseph E Steinmetz

Introduction

Relating Behavior and Neuroscience: Introduction and Synopsis
William Timberlake, David W Schaal, and Joseph E Steinmetz

The Challenge of Characterizing Operations in the Mechanisms Underlying Behavior.
William Bechtel.


Section I: Effects of Drugs and Genetics on Common Operant Tasks

Effects of Reinforcement Schedule on Facilitation of Operant Extinction by Chlordiazepoxide.
Julian C Leslie, David Shaw, Gillian Gregg, Nichola McCormick, David S Reynolds, and Gerard R Dawson.

Differential Acquisition of Lever Pressing in Inbred and Outbred Mice: Comparison of One-Lever and Two-Lever Procedures and Correlation with Differences in Locomotor Activity.
Todd L McKerchar, Troy J Zarcone, and Stephen C Fowler.

Pilocarpine Seizures Cause Age-Dependent Impairment in Auditory Location Discrimination.
John C Neill, Zhao Liu, Mohammad Mikati, and Gregory L Holmes.

The Role of Dopamine in Reinforcement: Changes in Reinforcement Sensitivity Induced by D1-type, D2-type, and Nonselective Dopamine Receptor Agonists.
Natalie A Bratcher, Valeri Farmer-Dougan, James D Dougan, Byron A Heidenreich, and Paul A Garris.

Effects of Morphine on Temporal Discrimination and Color Matching: General Disruption of Stimulus Control or Selective Effects on Timing?
Ryan D Ward and Amy L Odum.


Section II: Complex Stimulus Relations

Derived Stimulus Relations, Semantic Priming, and Event-Related Potentials: Testing a Behavioral Theory of Semantic Networks.
Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Carmel Staunton, Robert Whelan, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Sean Commins, Derek Walsh, Ian Stewart, Paul M Smeets, and Simon Dymond

Relating Derived Relations as a Model of Analogical Reasoning: Reaction Times and Event-Related Potentials.
Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Donal Regan, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Sean Commins, Derek Walsh, Ian Stewart, Paul M Smeets, Robert Whelan, and Simon Dymond.

On Aims and Methods in the Neuroimaging of Derived Relations.
David W Dickins.

Medial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions Abolish Contextual Control of Competing Responses.
J.E Haddon and A.S Killcross.


Section III: Discrimination, Choice, and Cortical Brain Activity

Integrating Functional Neuroimaging and Human Operant Research: Brain Activation Correlated with Presentation of Discriminative Stimuli..
Michael W Schlund and Michael F Cataldo.

Neural Correlates of a Default Response in a Delayed Go/No-Go Task.
Tobias Kalenscher, Onur Güntürkün, Pasquale Calabrese, Walter Gehlen, Thomas Kalt, and Bettina Diekamp.

Prefrontal Brain Activity Predicts Temporally Extended Decision-Making Behavior.
Tal Yarkoni, Todd S Braver, Jeremy R Gray, and Leonard Green.

Dynamic Response-by-Response Models of Matching Behavior in Rhesus Monkeys.
Brian Lau and Paul W Glimcher.

Linear-Nonlinear-Poisson Models of Primate Choice Dynamics.
Greg S Corrado, Leo P Sugrue, H Sebastian Seung, and William T Newsome.


Section IV: Neural and Behavioral analyses of Learning-Related Brain Circuitry and Addiction

Bridging the Gap between Brain and Behavior: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory.
Howard Eichenbaum and Norbert J Fortin.

Neuroscience and Learning: Lessons from Studying the Involvement of a Region of Cerebellar Cortex in Eyeblink Classical Conditioning.
Ronald P Villarreal and Joseph E Steinmetz.

Neuronal Substrates of Relapse to Cocaine-Seeking Behavior: Role of Prefrontal Cortex.
George V Rebec and WenLin Sun.

Behavioral Perspectives on the Neuroscience of Drug Addiction.
Gail Winger, James H Woods, Chad M Galuska, and Tammy Wade-Galuska.


Book Review

Naming Our Concerns about Neuroscience: A review of Bennett and Hacker’s Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.
David W Schaal.


Quotation

On the Enduring Power of Levers.

November 2002
V.78(3)

Special Issue on Categorization and
Concept Learning

Edited by
Thomas S. Critchfield,
Mark Galizio, and
Thomas R. Zentall

Categorization, concept learning, and behavior analysis: an introduction.
Thomas R. Zentall, Mark Galizio, and Thomas S. Critchfied.

Categorizing a moving target in terms of its speed, direction, or both.
Walter T Herbranson, Thane Fremouw, and Charles P Shimp.

The formation of linked perceptual classes.
Lanny Fields, Priya Matneja, Antonios Varelas, James Belanich, Adrienne Fitzer, and Kim Shamoun.

The formation of a generalized categorization repertoire: effect of training with multiple domains, samples, and comparisons.
Lanny Fields, Kenneth F Reeve, Priya Matneja, Antonios Varelas, James Belanich, Adrienne Fitzer, and Kim Shamoun.

Natural concepts in a juvenile gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla) at three levels of abstraction.
Jennifer Vonk and Suzanne E MacDonald.

Failure to find evidence of stimulus generalization within pictorial categories in pigeons.
Jennifer E Sutton and William A Roberts.

The structure of pigeon multiple-class same-different learning.
Robert G Cook.

Brief presentations are sufficient for pigeons to discriminate arrays of same and different stimuli.
Edward A Wasserman, Michael E Young, and Jessie J Peissig.

A functional-analytic model of analogy: a relational frame analysis.
Ian Stewart, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Bryan Roche, and Paul M Smeets.

A new approach to the formation of equivalence classes in pigeons.
Masako Jitsumori, Martina Siemann, Manuela Lehr, and Juan D Delius.

The development of emergent differential sample behavior in pigeons.
Peter J Urcuioli, Jada N Pierce, Karen M Lionello-DeNolf, Andrea Friedrich, J Gregor Fetterman, and Courtney Green.

Contextual control of stimulus generalization and stimulus equivalence in hierarchical categorization.
Karen Griffee and Michael J Dougher.

Sea lions and equivalence: expanding classes by exclusion.
Colleen Reichmuth Kastak and Ronald J Schusterman.

Stimulus control topographies and tests of symmetry in pigeons.
Karen M Lionello-DeNolf and Peter J Urcuioli.

Chimpanzee responding during matching to sample: control by exclusion.
Michael J Beran and David A Washburn.

On the role of covarying functions in stimulus class formation and transfer of function.
Rebecca G Markham and Michael R Markham.

Naming and categorization in young children: vocal tact training.
C Fergus Lowe, Pauline J Horne, Fay D A Harris, and Valerie R L Randle.

The competition-among-relations-in-nominals theory of conceptual combination: implications for stimulus class formation and class expansion.
Christina L Gagné.

Toward a unified theory of decision criterion learning in perceptual categorization.
W Todd Maddox.

Psychological Essentialism: A Review of E. Margolis and S. Laurence (Eds.), Concepts: Core Readings.
D Palmer.

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November 1995
V.64(3)

Special Issue on Behavioral Economics

Edited by
Warren K. Bickel, Leonard Green, and Rudy E. Vuchinich.

Behavioral economics [Editorial].
Warren K. Bickel, Leonard Green, and Rudy E. Vuchinich.

Discounting of delayed rewards: Models of individual choice.
Joel Myerson and Leonard Green.

How to teach a pigeon to maximize overall reinforcement rate.
Gene M. Heyman and Lawrence Tanz.

Pigeons’ preference for variable-interval water reinforcement under widely varied water budgets.
D A Case, P Nichols, and E Fantino.

Assessing preference for reinforcers using demand curves, work-rate functions, and expansion paths.
R. Don Tustin.

Behavioral economics of concurrent ethanol-sucrose and sucrose reinforcement in the rat: effects of altering variable-ratio requirements.
N M Petry and G M Heyman.

Unit-price analysis of opioid consumption by monkeys responding under a progressive-ratio schedule of drug injection.
J A English, J K Rowlett, and W L Woolverton.

Normalized demand for drugs and other reinforcers.
S R Hursh and G Winger.

Behavioral economics and behavioral momentum.
John A. Nevin.

Behavioral economics without anomalies.
H Rachlin.

Economics, ecologics, and mechanics: The dynamics of responding under conditions of varying motivation.
Peter R. Killeen.

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March 1994
V.61(2)

Special Issue Celebrating the
Contributions of
Joseph V. Brady

Edited by
William Hodos
and
Nancy A. Ator

A festschrift in honor of Joseph V. Brady in his 70th year.
William Hodos and Nancy A. Ator. [Editorial]

The puzzle of responding maintained by response-contingent shock.
M T Laurence, P N Hineline, and P J Bersh.

In vitro reinforcement of hippocampal bursting: a search for Skinner’s atoms of behavior.
L Stein, B G Xue, and J D Belluzzi.

Human d-amphetamine drug discrimination: methamphetamine and hydromorphone.
R J Lamb and J E Henningfield.

A procedure for studying the within-session onset of human drug discrimination.
K Silverman, G K Mumford, and R R Griffiths.

A behavioral economic analysis of concurrently available money and cigarettes.
R J DeGrandpre, W K Bickel, S T Higgins, and J R Hughes.

Effects of delta 9-THC on marijuana smoking, dose choice, and verbal report of drug liking.
T H Kelly, R W Foltin, C S Emurian, and M W Fischman.

Effects of mesolimbic dopamine depletion on responding maintained by cocaine and food.
S B Caine and G F Koob.

Synergistic effects of ethanol and cocaine on brain stimulation reward.
M J Lewis and H L June.

Effects of cocaine on simple reaction times and sensory thresholds in baboons.
R D Hienz, D J Spear, and D A Bowers.

Spectral and pattern response in the rabbit retina.
J C Armington and A R Adolph.

Behavior analysis and the search for the origins of hypertension.
D E Anderson.

Biobehavioral effects of extended salt loading and conflict stress in intact baboons.
J S Turkkan.

Stability of visceral behavior in the awake rat during rest.
D C Randall and D R Brown.

An operant approach to rehabilitation medicine: overcoming learned nonuse by shaping.
E Taub, J E Crago, L D Burgio, T E Groomes, E W Cook, 3rd, S C DeLuca, and N E Miller.

Designing a behavioral program for a barrio in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Harold L. Cohen.

The relations between neuroscience and human behavioral science.
F Strumwasser.

Neurology and neuropathology of Soman-induced brain injury: an overview.
J M Petras.

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July 1993
V.60(1)

Special Issue on
the Nature of
Reinforcement

Edited by
Michael Commons,
Edmund Fantino,
and
Marc N. Branch
Editorial
Michael Commons, Edmund Fantino, and Marc N. Branch.

Adaptation, teleology, and selection by consequences.
Jon D. Ringen

A selectionist approach to reinforcement.
J W Donahoe, J E Burgos, and D C Palmer

A cellular analogue of operant conditioning.
L Stein, B G Xue, and J D Belluzzi.

The nature of sexual reinforcement.
L L Crawford, K S Holloway, and M Domjan.

The role of autoshaping in cooperative two-player games between starlings
Juan C. Reboreda and Alejandro Kacelnik.

Reversibility of single-incentive selective associations.
L V Panlilio and S J Weiss

Behavior systems and reinforcement: an integrative approach.
W Timberlake

Response deprivation, reinforcement, and economics
James Allison

The substitutability of reinforcers
Leonard Green and Debra E. Freed.

Delay reduction: current status
E Fantino, R A Preston, and R Dunn.

Response acquisition under targeted percentile schedules: a continuing quandary for molar models of operant behavior.
G Galbicka, M A Kautz, and T Jagers.

Violations of transitivity: Implications for a theory of contextual choice.
Randolph C. Grace.

Scaling pigeons' choice of feeds: bigger is better.
P R Killeen, H Cate, and T Tran.

Techniques for establishing schedules with wheel running as reinforcement in rats.
I H Iversen.

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 May 1992 
V.57(3)

Special Issue on
Behavioral Dynamics

Edited by
Gregory Galbicka

The dynamics of behavior [Editorial]
Gregory Galbicka.

Behavior dynamics: One perspective.
M. Jackson Marr.

Dynamics in the fine structure of schedule-controlled behavior.
W. L. Palya.

Computational behavior dynamics: an alternative description of Nevin (1969.
C. P. Shimp

An integrative model for the study of behavioral momentum.
J A Nevin

Resistance to change and the law of effect.
David N. Harper and Anthony P. McLean.

Order and chaos in fixed-interval schedules of reinforcement.
Mark S. Hoyert

In search of the feedback function for variable-interval schedules.
William M. Baum

Applying linear systems analysis to dynamic behavior.
J. J McDowell, Ronald Bass, and Robert Kessel.

Comparison of variance and covariance patterns in parallel and serial theories of timing.
J. Gibbon and R. M. Church.

Diminishing marginal value as delay discounting
H. Rachlin

On immediate function
Michael D. Zeiler


Special Theoretical Article

Mechanics of the animate.
P. R. Killeen

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September 1991
V.56(2)

Special Issue on
Behavioral Pharmacology

Edited by
James E. Barrett
and
David J. Sanger

Behavioral pharmacology in the era of neuroscience. [Editorial]
J E Barrett and D J Sanger

Rat AA-26: behavioral pharmacology science pioneer.
J V Brady

A quantitative interresponse-time analysis of DRL performance differentiates similar effects of the antidepressant desipramine and the novel anxiolytic gepirone.
J B Richards and L S Seiden

Variable-ratio schedules of timeout from avoidance: effects of d-amphetamine and morphine.
M Galizio and A R Allen

Control over response number by a targeted percentile schedule: reinforcement loss and the acute effects of d-amphetamine
G Galbicka, K P Fowler, and Z J Ritch

The effects of diazepam and triazolam on repeated acquisition and performance of response sequences with an observing response
W K Bickel, S T Higgins, and J R Hughes

Distinguishing between haloperidol’s and decamethonium’s disruptive effects on operant behavior in rats: use of measurements that complement response rate
S C Fowler, P D Skjoldager, R M Liao, J M Chase, and J S Johnson

Cocaine and food as reinforcers: effects of reinforcer magnitude and response requirement under second-order fixed-ratio and progressive-ratio schedules.
D J Spear and J L Katz

Food-paired stimuli as conditioned reinforcers: effects of d-amphetamine.
S L Cohen and M N Branch

Effects of d-amphetamine on responding under second-order schedules of reinforcement with paired and nonpaired brief stimuli.
S L Cohen

Drug discrimination using a conditioned taste-aversion paradigm in rhesus monkeys.
J R Glowa, R D Jeffreys, and A L Riley

Effects of schedule of reinforcement on a pentobarbital discrimination in rats.
S H Snodgrass and D E McMillan

Analysis of fixed-ratio behavior maintained by drug reinforcers.
P Skjoldager, G Winger, and J H Woods

Tolerance to and residual effects of cocaine in squirrel monkeys depend on reinforcement-schedule parameter.
C E Hughes and M N Branch

Modifying drug-reinforced behavior by altering the economic conditions of the drug and a nondrug reinforcer.
M E Carroll, G G Carmona, and S A May

Behavioral economics of drug self-administration and drug abuse policy.
S R Hursh

Neurochemical changes correlated with behavior maintained under fixed-interval and fixed-ratio schedules of reinforcement.
J E Barrett and S M Hoffmann

Behavioral pharmacology in Britain: a brief historical review.
D E Blackman

Behavioral pharmacology in continental Europe. a personal account of its origin and development.
M N Richelle

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November 1990
V.54(3)

Special Issue on the Experimental Analysis
of Human Behavior

Edited by
Douglas J. Navarick,
Daniel J. Bernstein,
and
Edmund Fantino

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990) (a thank-you).
Fred S. Keller
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The experimental analysis of human behavior [Editorial]
Douglas J. Navarick, Daniel J. Bernstein, and Edmund Fantino.

The momentum of human behavior in a natural setting.
F. Charles Mace, Joseph S. Lalli, Michael C. Shea, Elizabeth Pinter Lalli, Barbara J. West, Maura Roberts, and John A. Nevin

The utility of verbal and behavioral assessments of value.
D J Bernstein and R L Michael.

Observing behavior in a computer game.
D A Case, B O Ploog, and E Fantino.

Recognition memory in older adults: adjustment to changing contingencies.
A Baron and T M Surdy.

Relations between baseline contingencies and equivalence probe performances.
Carol Pilgrim and Mark Galizio.

Development of conditional and equivalence relations without differential consequences.
R J Harrison and G Green.

Conditional discrimination in mentally retarded adults: The development of generalized skills.
K J Saunders and J E Spradlin.

Effects of response variability on the sensitivity of rule-governed behavior.
James H. Joyce and Philip N. Chase.

Performance of children under a multiple random-ratio random-interval schedule of reinforcement.
Gregg A. Baxter and Henry Schlinger.

The effects of verbal performance descriptions on nonverbal operant responding.
Laine J. Torgrud and Stephen W. Holborn.

Three-term contingency patterns in mother-child verbal interactions during first-language acquisition.
Ernst L. Moerk.

Skinner’s Verbal Behavior, Chomsky’s review, and mentalism.
N Stemmer.

Cognition and behavior analysis: A review of Rachlin’s Judgment, Decision, and Choice.
S Stolarz-Fantino and E Fantino.

Of carrots and sticks: A review of Deci and Ryan’s Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior
Daniel J. Bernstein.

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November 1989
V.52(3)

Special Issue on the Experimental Analysis
of Cognition

Edited by
K. Geoffrey White,
Dianne McCarthy,
and
Edmund Fantino

Cognition and behavior analysis.
K. Geoffrey White, Dianne McCarthy, and Edmund Fantino.

Contrast as seen in visual search reaction times.
D S Blough.

Secondary generalization and categorization in pigeons.
R. S. Bhatt and E. A. Wasserman.

On the limits of the matching concept in monkeys (Cebus apella).
M R D'Amato and M Colombo

Relational and absolute stimulus learning by monkeys in a memory task.
A A Wright, R G Cook, and D F Kendrick.

Does conditional discrimination learning by pigeons necessarily involve hierarchical relationships?
David R. Thomas and Eric K. Schmidt.

Functional classes and equivalence relations.
Murray Sidman, Constance K. Wynne, Russell W. Maguire, and Thomas Barnes.

Stimulus equivalence and rule following.
Linda J. Hayes, Scott Thompson, and Steven C. Hayes.

Instructional control of generalized relational matching to sample in children.
B Lowenkron.

Short-term memory for responses: The "choose-small" effect.
J G Fetterman and D MacEwen. [Correction]

Use of an ambiguous-sample procedure to establish a cue to forget in pigeons.
Douglas S. Grant.

On conditioned reinforcing effects of negative discriminative stimuli.
Keith D. Allen and Kennon A. Lattal.

Preference for starting and finishing behavior patterns.
C P Shimp, S L Sabulsky, and L J Childers.

Global increase in response latencies by early middle age: complexity effects in individual performances.
J Myerson, S Hale, R Hirschman, C Hansen, and B Christiansen.

Timing multimodal events in pigeons.
Ken Cheng and William A. Roberts.

Visually guided catching and tracking skills in pigeons: A preliminary analysis.
Mark E. Rilling and Thomas L. LaClaire.

An ecological analysis of knowing by wielding.
M T Turvey, H Y Solomon, and G Burton.

Nonhuman short-term memory: A quantitative reanalysis of selected findings.
John T. Wixted.

Connectionist models of conditioning: A tutorial.
E. James Kehoe.

Book Review
The vocabulary of remembering: A review of Kendrick, Rilling, and Denny's Theories of Animal Memory.
John Wixted.

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November 1988
V.50(3)

Special Issue on Behavior Analysis
and Biological Factors

Edited by
Steven R. Hursh, Stephen E. G. Lea, and Edmund Fantino.

Behavior analysis and biological factors [Introduction]
Steven R. Hursh, Stephen E. G. Lea, and Edmund Fantino.

Changes in feeding and foraging patterns as an antipredator defensive strategy: a laboratory simulation using aversive stimulation in a closed economy.
M S Fanselow, L S Lester, and F J Helmstetter.

Pigeons’ choices in situations of diminishing returns: fixed- versus progressive-ratio schedules.
B A Wanchisen, T A Tatham, and P N Hineline.

Choice and foraging: the effects of accessibility on acceptability.
E Fantino and R A Preston.

Time horizons in rats: the effect of operant control of access to future food.
W Timberlake, D J Gawley, and G A Lucas.

A cost-benefit analysis of demand for food.
S R Hursh, T G Raslear, D Shurtleff, R Bauman, and L Simmons.

Coping with rising food costs in a closed economy: feeding behavior and nocturnal hypothermia in pigeons.
M E Rashotte and D Henderson.

The effects of component duration on multiple-schedule performance in closed and open economies.
M H La Fiette and E Fantino.

Positive behavioral contrast across food and alcohol reinforcers.
F K McSweeney, C L Melville, and J Higa.

Signaled avoidance in the eye withdrawal reflex of the green crab.
Charles I. Abramson, Philip M. Armstrong, Robin A. Feinman, and Richard D. Feinman.

Discrimination learning in a foraging situation.
Roger L. Mellgren and Steven W. Brown.

Conditioning of appetitive and consummatory sexual behavior in male Japanese quail.
M Domjan, D O’Vary, and P Greene.

Control of responding by sounds of different quality: an evolutionary analysis.
J M Harrison.

Pigeons can discriminate locations presented in pictures
W. K. Honig and Karen E. Stewart.

Comprehension of “absence” by an African Grey parrot: Learning with respect to questions of same/different
Irene M. Pepperberg.


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November 1984
V.42(3)

Special Issue on
Present Trends
and
Directions for the Future

Edited by
Kennon A. Lattal
and
Peter Harzam

Present trends and directions for the future. [Introduction]
Kennon A. Lattal and Peter Harzem.

Conceptual approaches and issues.
M. Jackson Marr.

Verbal behavior.
Jack Michael.

Interpersonal relations: Cooperation and competition.
David R. Schmitt.

Experimental analysis of individual differences and personality.
Peter Harzem.

Melioration and self-experimentation.
Allen Neuringer.

Cognition, behavior, and the experimental analysis of behavior.
Charles P. Shimmp.

Quantitative analysis.
John A. Nevin.

Behavioral economics.
Steven R. Hursh.

The operant-respondent distinction: Future directions.
Joseph J. Pear and Gloria D. Eldridge.   Correction

Stimulus control and associative learning.
Ben A. Williams.

The sleeping giant: Reinforcement schedules.
Michael D. Zeiler.

Aversive control: A separate domain?
Philip N. Hineline.

Rate dependency, behavioral mechanisms, and behavioral pharmacology.
Marc N. Branch.

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Mining our archives.

Because all back issues of both JEAB and JABA have been scanned and served by the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, we can present several new pages that are largely based upon articles that were not previously available in an electronic format.

Revised January 10 2011 (vgl)