How do Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) pass the time? Adjunctive behavior during temporal differentiation in gerbils

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 352-368

  Lejeune, Helga ^a   Cornet, Sabine ^a   Ferreira, Mario Augusto ^a   Wearden, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001433544     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.24.3.352     Document Type: Article

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