Choice and timing in concurrent chains: Effects of initial-link duration

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 71, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 188-200

  Grace, Randolph C ^a   Berg, Mark E ^a   Kyonka, Elizabeth G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Choice; Concurrent chains; Key peck; Peak procedure; Pigeons; Scalar expectancy theory; Timing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; TIME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 31544447180     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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