The effects of pre-trial administration of strychnine sulphate on maze learning were assessed for both massed and distributed practice. Analysis of trials to criterion and errors to criterion confirmed strychnine's facilitation of learning under massed practice but showed no such facilitating effect under distributed practice.
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