Do adjusting-amount and adjusting-delay procedures produce equivalent estimates of subjective value in pigeons?

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-347

  Green, Leonard ^a,d   Myerson, Joel ^a   Shah, Anuj K ^a,b   Estle, Sara J ^a,c   Holt, Daniel D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusting amount; Adjusting delay; Discounting; Hyperbolic function; Key peck; Pigeons; Subjective value

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD;

EID: 34249857728     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2007.37-06     Document Type: Article

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