Position of operant costs affects visits to resources by laboratory mice, Mus musculus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1325-1333

  Warburton, Harriet J ^a   Nicol, Christine J ^a  

^a Langford House ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAGE EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY MOUSE; MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032078131     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0679     Document Type: Article

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