Support for a theory of memory for event duration must distinguish between test-trial ambiguity and actual memory loss

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 467-472

  Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; confusion; Delayed matching; Instructional failure; Key peck; Pigeons; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033219251     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1999.72-467     Document Type: Article

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