Rapid timing of a single transition in interfood interval duration by rats

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-184

  Higa, Jennifer J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

EID: 0030997904     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199056     Document Type: Article

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