Discriminative and reinforcing stimulus properties of music for rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-127

  Otsuka, Y ^a   Yanagi, J ^a   Watanabe, S ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Auditory reinforcement; Conspecific; Music; Operant conditioning; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; CONDITIONING; CONSPECIFIC; MUSIC; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

RATTUS;

EID: 58249112735     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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