About skinner and time: Behavior-analytic contributions to research on animal timing

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-142

  Lejeune, Helga ^a   Richelle, Marc ^a   Wearden, J H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B.F. Skinner; Fixed interval schedules; Models of timing; Temporal control; Temporal differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; RESEARCH; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645324066     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2006.85.04     Document Type: Review

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