Effects of reinforcer magnitude on an animal model of impulsive behavior

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-271

  Farrar, Andrew M ^a   Kieres, Artur K ^a   Hausknecht, Kathryn A ^a   De Wit, Harriet ^b   Richards, Jerry B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Delay discounting; Hyperbolic discounting; Impulsivity; Magnitude effect

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FOLLOW UP; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0142186196     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00139-6     Document Type: Article

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