Acquisition of peak responding: What is learned?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-75

  Balci, Fuat ^a,b   Gallistel, Charles R ^c   Allen, Brian D ^a   Frank, Krystal M ^a   Gibson, Jacqueline M ^c   Brunner, Daniela ^a,d  

^a PSYCHOGENICS INC   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Animal cognition; Interval timing; Mice; Peak procedure

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 57549097840     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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