Time-sharing in pigeons: Independent effects of gap duration, position and discriminability from the timed signal

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 71, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 116-125

  Buhusi, Catalin V ^a,b   Paskalis, Jean Paul G ^a   Cerutti, Daniel T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gap procedure; Intensity; Interval timing; Peck; Pigeon; Visual

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; MEMORY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGEON; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 31544468885     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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