The effect of deprivation of visual incentives on visual exploration motivation in monkeys.

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31 December 1956

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Vol. 50 (2) , 177-179
DOI:10.1037/h0048106
PMID:13449202

Abstract

Deprivation of visual experience for short periods (0, 2, 4 and 8 hrs.) increased the responsiveness to visual incentives as a function of length of visual deprivation, the effect appearing to be maximal at 4 hours. "These data provide another demonstration of the similarities beween behavior based on a proposed curiosity drive and behavior based on biological drives.".

Keywords

BEHAVIOR
VISION