Types of responding in a signal-detection task

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 561-574

  Alsop, Brent ^a   Rowley, Rachael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Choice latency; Pigeon; Response bias; Signal detection; Stimulus discriminability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347079587     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1996.65-561     Document Type: Article

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