Stimulus control in multiple temporal discriminations

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 520-529

  Caetano, Marcelo S ^a,b,c   Guilhardi, Paulo ^a,d   Church, Russell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed interval; Memory; Overshadowing; Rat; Stimulus control; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870864880     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-012-0071-9     Document Type: Article

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