Simple and conditional visual discrimination with wheel running as reinforcement in rats

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-121

  Iversen, Iver H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Conditional discrimination; Discriminative control; Key press; Matching to sample; Rats; Trial initiation response; Wheel running reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SATIETY;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SATIATION;

EID: 0032172269     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1998.70-103     Document Type: Article

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