Monkeys are more patient in a foraging task than in a standard intertemporal choice task

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Blanchard, Tommy C ^a   Hayden, Benjamin Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL FORAGING; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; REWARD; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923239634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117057     Document Type: Article

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