Manipulating pre-feed, density of reinforcement, and extinction produces disruption in the Location variation of a temporal discrimination task in pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-89

  McClure, Erin A ^a   Saulsgiver, Kathryn A ^b   Wynne, Clive D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Pigeon; Pre feed; Stimulus control; Temporal discrimination; Timing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

COLUMBA;

EID: 67650118254     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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