The watershed years of 1958-1962 in the Harvard Pigeon Lab

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 327-345

  Catania, A Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

B. F. Skinner; Electromechanical programming; Experimental analysis; George S. Reynolds; Memorial Hall; Pigeon laboratory; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ART; ARTICLE; HISTORY; LABORATORY; LITERATURE; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; COLUMBIDAE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LABORATORIES; MASSACHUSETTS; PORTRAITS; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0036562497     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2002.77-327     Document Type: Article

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