Choice between Delayed Reinforcers: Interaction between Delay and Deprivation Level

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-202

  Ho, M Y ^a   Wogar, M A ^a   Bradshaw, C M ^a   Szabadi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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