Value of conditioned reinforcers as a function of temporal context

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-59

  O'Daly, Matthew ^a,b   Meyer, Steven ^a   Fantino, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain schedule; Choice; Context of reinforcement; Delay reduction theory; Key peck; Pigeons; Stimulus value

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244258507     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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