Cues produced by reward and nonreward and temporal cues influence responding in the intertrial interval and to the conditioned stimulus

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Capaldi, E J ^a   Martins, Ana ^a   Miller, Ronald M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertrial responding; Percentage of reward; Reward produced memories; Schedules of reward; Single alternation patterning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846808950     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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