Rapid Acquisition of Choice and Timing in Pigeons

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 392-408

  Kyonka, Elizabeth G E ^a   Grace, Randolph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

acquisition; choice behavior; concurrent chains; pigeons; temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 36048937590     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.4.392     Document Type: Article

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