Preference for sequences of rewards: Further tests of a parallel discounting model

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 87-99

  Brunner, Dani ^a  

^a Division of Clinical Psychobiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Parallel discounting model; Rat; Sequences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; REWARD; TIME;

EID: 0033012067     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00011-X     Document Type: Article

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