Ordinal judgments in the rat: An understanding of longer and shorter for suprasecond, but not subsecond, durations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 710-720

  Cordes, Sara ^a   Meck, Warren H ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar timing; Interval timing; Ordinality; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; RAT; REACTION TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; JUDGMENT; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84885335801     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032439     Document Type: Article

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