Rats can make relative perceptual judgments about sequential stimuli

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 473-481

  Perry, Clint ^a   Felsen, Gidon ^a  

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

Author keywords

Abstract comparison; Decision making; More versus less; Rat cognition; Two stimulus interval discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; REWARD; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

ANIMALIA; CARUM CARVI; MENTHA SPICATA; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84862610764     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0471-4     Document Type: Article

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