Delay discounting in rhesus monkeys: Equivalent discounting of more and less preferred sucrose concentrations

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-60

  Freeman, Kevin B ^a   Nonnemacher, J Emily ^a   Green, Leonard ^b   Myerson, Joel ^b   Woolverton, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Hyperboloid discounting function; Magnitude effect; Monkeys; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG EFFECT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857220120     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-011-0045-3     Document Type: Article

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