Rats' memory for event duration in delayed matching-to-sample with nonspatial comparison response alternatives

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Van Rooyen, Patrick ^a   McMillan, Neil ^a   Santi, Angelo ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Memory for time; Rats; Time discrimination

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; MEMORY; RESEARCH WORK; RODENT; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DECISION MAKING; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 40649099299     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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