The generality of empirical and theoretical explanations of behavior

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-215

  Guilhardi, Paulo ^a,b   Church, Russell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Modular theory; Theory evaluation; Timing theories

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; RODENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

RATTUS;

EID: 64949170824     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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