The learning of response patterns in choice situations

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-271

  Machado, Armando ^a   Keen, Richard ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; PIGEON; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0032853679     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199724     Document Type: Article

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