Timing ability and numerical competence in rats

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-97

  Breukelaar, John W C ^a   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MATHEMATICS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APTITUDE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MATHEMATICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031603705     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.24.1.84     Document Type: Article

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