Rats' memory for time and relational responding in the duration-comparison procedure

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-184

  Santi, Angelo ^a   Hoover, Claire ^a   Simmons, Sabrina ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duration comparison task; Instructional ambiguity confusion hypothesis; Memory for time; Rat; Relational duration discrimination; Subjective shortening

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951941747     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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