Modelling timing performance on the peak procedure

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 137-156

  Cheng, Ken ^a   Miceli, Paul ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interval timing; Model; Peak procedure; Pigeon; Rat; Scalar Expectancy Theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL; PIGEON; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TIME;

COLUMBA;

EID: 0030249701     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00083-6     Document Type: Article

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