Signaled reinforcement effects on fixed-interval performance of the rat

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-192

  Nakajima, Sadahiko ^a,b   Kitaguchi, Katsuya ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030004465     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198966     Document Type: Article

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