Sign tracking in domesticated quail with one trial a day: Generality across CS and US parameters

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-119

  Burns, Melissa ^a   Domjan, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; SEXUALITY; STIMULUS;

ANIMALIA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0034118376     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199776     Document Type: Article

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