Bar press durations as a reliable and robust measure of frustration-related operant behavior: Sensitivity to incentive downshift and dose-response paradigms

• Yorkiris Mármol Contreras ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YMC and TESV also contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8887-7303

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• Tileena E. S. Vasquez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YMC and TESV also contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Poonam Shah,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kelsey Payne,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jessica Di Re,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Fernanda Laezza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Thomas A. Green

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thgreen@utmb.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Mental Health Research Group, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6726-1200

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