Reward magnitude, but not time of day, influences the trial-spacing effect in autoshaping with rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 423-427

  Thomas, Brian ^a   Huneycutt, David ^a   Papini, Mauricio R ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Rats; Reward magnitude; Trial spacing effects

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

EID: 0032426795     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00178-4     Document Type: Article

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