Interval timing in Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 501-509

  Higa, J J ^a   Simm, L A ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Betta splendens; Fixed interval schedules of reinforcement; Interval timing; Mirror image reinforcers; Siamese fighting fish; Swimming response

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FISH; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FISH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FISHES; MALE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

BETTA; BETTA SPLENDENS;

EID: 7044223035     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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