Short-term memory for temporal intervals: Contrasting explanations of the choose-short effect in pigeons

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-25

  Pinto, Carlos ^a   Machado, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Choose short effect; Coding model; Confusion hypothesis; Delayed matching to sample; Pigeon; Short term memory; Subjective shortening model; Timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649632306     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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