Training delays reduce the choose-short effect with keylight, but not with food, duration samples in pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-216

  Grant, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choose short effect; Matching to duration; Memory; Pigeons; Timing; Training delays

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOOD; MEMORY; TRAINING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTIVATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 33846811685     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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