Effects upon rats' responses on a running wheel of single alternation of large and small rewards and external cues

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-123

  Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Imada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Rat; Reward magnitude discrimination; Running wheel; Single alternation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032275749     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00082     Document Type: Article

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