Stimulus Compounding in Interval Timing: The Modality-Duration Relationship of the Anchor Durations Results in Qualitatively Different Response Patterns to the Compound Cue

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-107

  Swanton, Dale N ^a   Matell, Matthew S ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interval timing; Peak interval procedure; Stimulus compounding; Temporal averaging; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 79951563731     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020200     Document Type: Article

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