Adaptation level effects in discrimination of flicker frequency

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-109

  Malone, John C ^a   Armento, Maria E A ^a   Nemeth, Rita M ^a   Billington, Eric J ^a   Carpenter, Candice N ^a   Andrews, K Brooke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation level theory; Flicker frequency; Hysteresis; Maintained generalization gradients; Pigeons; Sequential effects

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIRD;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

COLUMBA;

EID: 1642452800     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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