The role of 'nothing' in memory for event duration in pigeons

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-161

  Gaitan, Santino C ^a   Wixted, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0034085360     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03200250     Document Type: Article

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