TongueTwister: An integrated program for analyzing lickometer data

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1277-1283

  Houpt, Thomas A ^a   Frankmann, Sandra P ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer; Licking; Taste; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LICKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE; TONGUE;

EID: 0343549327     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00252-1     Document Type: Article

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