At 10:11 AM -0500 2/1/01, Ken Steele wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:08:52 -0800 Robert Herdegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey, Ken! Wasn't it at USND at Hoople that the early work was done on the
>> PDQ Bach effect, in which rats listened to his Concerto for
>> Horn and Hardart (S. 27) 12 hours a day for 6 weeks, after
>> which their ability to learn mazes was significantly
>> worse than rats that were left in peace? (At least
>> it was for those rats in the music condition who didn't chew their own
>> ears off during the study.)
>>
>>
>
>Unfortunately, we later discovered that the rats in the Horn & Hardart
>group had increased consumption of coffee and pie which could also
>account for the change.
>
>Anyway, it was at Hoople that we learned about Skinner's visit to
>a certain Philadelphia institution and the true story behind the design
>of the operant chamber.
>
>Ken
Yes, that was the true source of AUTOMATed research.
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