Spatial discounting of food and social rewards in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Mühlhoff, Nelly ^a   Stevens, Jeffrey R ^a   Reader, Simon M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discounting; Grouping; Intertemporal choice; Reward types; Shoaling; Spatiotemporal choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856405779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00068     Document Type: Article

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