Context effect in a temporal bisection task with the choice keys available during the sample

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 286-292

  Oliveira, Luís ^a   Machado, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Double temporal bisection; Learning to Time model; Pigeons; Psychometric function; Scalar Expectancy Theory; Timing

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GAMEBIRD; LEARNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 64949168604     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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