Choice in multi-alternative environments: A trial-by-trial implementation of the Sequential Choice Model

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 435-439

  Vasconcelos, Marco ^a   Monteiro, Tiago ^a   Aw, Justine ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice; Latency; Sequential Choice Model; Starlings

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PASSERINE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SEQUENTIAL CHOICE MODEL; STARLING; STURNUS VULGARIS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; STARLINGS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 77951975224     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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