Comparison of Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET) and the Learning-to-Time (LeT) model in a successive temporal bisection task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 269-278

  Arantes, Joana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bisection; Context effect; Key peck; Pigeon; Successive discrimination; Temporal discrimination; Timing models

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; MODELING; TEMPORAL PERIOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PSYCHOMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 42249099168     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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