The generalized matching law as a predictor of choice between cocaine and food in rhesus monkeys

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 163, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 319-326

  Anderson, Karen G ^a,b   Velkey, Andrew J ^a,b   Woolverton, William L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Cocaine; Concurrent variable interval schedules; Generalized matching law; Rhesus monkey; Self administration

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FOOD; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0036392317     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-002-1012-7     Document Type: Article

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