Incentive downshifts evoke search repertoires in rats

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-167

  Pecoraro, Norman C ^a   Timberlake, William D ^a   Tinsley, Matthew ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MAZE LEARNING; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033112285     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.25.2.153     Document Type: Article

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