Rats' memory for event duration: Differential effects of delaying the discriminative choice cue as opposed to the opportunity to execute the choice response

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-199

  Santi, Angelo ^a   Stanford, Lianne ^a   Coyle, James ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delayed conditional discrimination; Memory for time; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0031240079     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00015-6     Document Type: Article

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