A new training procedure for studying discrimination learning in fish

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 343-348

  Agrillo, Christian ^a   Miletto Petrazzini, Maria Elena ^a   Piffer, Laura ^a   Dadda, Marco ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Mosquitofish; Numerical competence; Training procedure

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FISH; MOSQUITO FISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TANK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING PROCEDURE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84859268604     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.02.025     Document Type: Article

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