Interstimulus interval as a discriminative stimulus: Evidence of the generality of a novel asymmetry in temporal discrimination learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 412-420

  Todd, Travis P ^a   Winterbauer, Neil E ^a   Bouton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature positive effect; Interstimulus interval; Temporal discrimination; Timing

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; LEARNING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME PERCEPTION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 77951976481     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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