On the content of learning in interval timing: Representations or associations?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 95, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-17

  Jozefowiez, Jeremie ^a,b   Machado, Armando ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Associative models; Cognitive models; Interval timing; Linear timing; Log timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COGNITION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; LEARNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; TIMESCALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PIGEON; PSYCHOMETRY; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876840144     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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