The effects of concurrent task and gap events on peak time in the peak procedure

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-56

  Aum, Sang Weon ^a,b   Brown, Bruce L ^a,b   Hemmes, Nancy S ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Conditioning; Dual task; Peak interval; Pigeon; Time perception

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIRD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREDICTION; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 1642534502     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00152-9     Document Type: Article

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