Mediation of timing accuracy by operant behavior

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 143-154

  Harper, David N ^a   Bizo, Lewis A ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Symbolic matching to sample; Timing; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0034680080     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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