The role of trial tracking on rats' successive delayed matching-to-sample modality performance

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-287

  Cohen, J S ^a   Roberts, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intertrial interval; Retention interval; Trial tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029982478     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00065-8     Document Type: Article

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