Effects of variable training, signaled and unsignaled delays, and d-amphetamine on delay-discounting functions

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 424-436

  Slezak, Jonathan M ^a   Anderson, Karen G ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; D amphetamine; Delay discounting; Rat; Signaled delays; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD PREFERENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349676219     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3283305ef9     Document Type: Article

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