Control of choice by the spatial configuration of goals

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 438-446

  Brown, Michael F ^a   Terrinoni, Morgan ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; GOALS; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030265612     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.22.4.438     Document Type: Article

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