Female mini-pig performance of temporal response differentiation, incremental repeated acquisition, and progressive ratio operant tasks

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-34

  Ferguson, Sherry A ^a   Gopee, Neera V ^a   Paule, Merle G ^a   Howard, Paul C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Motivation; Operant behavior; Progressive ratio; Time estimation; Timing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHILD; COGNITION; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIG; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MINIPIG; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; RATTUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 57649131295     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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