Repeated post- or presession cocaine administration: Roles of dose and fixed-ratio schedule

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-188

  Pinkston, Jonathan W ^a   Branch, Marc N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Conditional stimulus duration; Contingent tolerance; Key peck; Pavlovian conditioning; Pigeons; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042632980     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2004.81-169     Document Type: Article

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