The effect of sample duration and cue on a double temporal discrimination

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-94

  Oliveira, Luís ^a   Machado, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Double temporal bisection; Key peck; Learning to Time model; Pigeons; Psychometric function; Scalar Expectancy Theory; Timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149029124     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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