Risk-sensitive foraging in rats: The effects of response-effort and reward-amount manipulations on choice behavior

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-17

  Kirshenbaum, Ari P ^a   Szalda Petree, Allen D ^a   Haddad, Nabil F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging theory; Response effort; Risk sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; RISK; TREADMILL;

EID: 0034617233     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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