The role of temporal generalization in a temporal discrimination task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-125

  Russell, Rona ^a   Kirkpatrick, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Peak shift; Rats; Temporal generalization; Time perception; Timing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; RODENT; TRAINING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846830023     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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