Drive level affected reversal rather than non-reversal-shift learning during initial shift-discrimination trials. Animals under high water deprivation during the original simultaneous discrimination and reversal-shift discrimination made more initial (first trial-block) errors during reversal-shift than animals that were maintained on moderate deprivation during either or both discrimination tasks.
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