The special section of tutorial articles in the present issue is based on the first and third meetings of the Kyoto Seminar for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, titled Instrumentation in the Study of Operant Conditioning: The Past and the Future. The Kyoto Seminars were held twice a year (spring and fall), from early in December, 2012, to the end of March, 2015, that is, 6 times. The tutorial articles in the present issue deal with cumulative recorders as a basic method for recording response patterns and food dispensers as a device for presenting reinforcers in the study of operant behavior. The articles reveal that research in operant behavior has benefited from technical innovations in experimental apparatus such as cumulative recorders and food dispensers. These articles will provide a further step for future research on operant behavior.
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