A simultaneous temporal processing account of response rate

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 506-510

  MacInnis, Mika L M ^a   Marshall, Andrew T ^a   Freestone, David M ^a   Church, Russell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Response pattern; Response rate; Simultaneous temporal processing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 77951975042     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.12.019     Document Type: Article

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