Interval duration effects on blocking in appetitive conditioning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 71, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 318-329

  Jennings, Dómhnall ^a,b   Kirkpatrick, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior and behavior mechanisms; Classical conditioning; Learning; Rats; Reinforcement; Time perception

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; PERCEPTION; RODENT; TIME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE INHIBITION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31544463783     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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