Further tests of the Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET) and the Learning-to-Time (LeT) model in a temporal bisection task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-206

  Machado, Armando ^a   Arantes, Joana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Learning to Time model; Scalar Expectancy Theory; Temporal bisection; Timing

Indexed keywords

BIRD; LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, RESPONSE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 33646146464     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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