Reliable operant apparatus for fish: Audio stimulus generator, response button, and pellet-dispensing nipple

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 470-478

  Chase, Ava R ^a   Hill, Winfield ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CARP; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MICROCOMPUTER;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTOMATION; CARPS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MICROCOMPUTERS;

EID: 0033173339     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03200728     Document Type: Article

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