Increasing the speed of an internal clock: The effects of nicotine on interval timing

Drug Development Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 204-211

  Hinton, Sean C ^a   Meek, Warren H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interval timing; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030444921     PISSN: 02724391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2299(199607/08)38:3/4<204::AID-DDR9>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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