Interval timing with gaps: Gap ambiguity as an alternative to temporal decay

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 484-486

  Zentall, Thomas R ^a   Kaiser, Daren H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity hypothesis; Gap procedure; Peak procedure; Subjective shortening; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; RATS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27844444237     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.484     Document Type: Article

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