Response Rates Are Governed More by Time Cues Than Contingency

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-20

  Freestone, David M ^a,b   Macinnis, Mika L M ^a   Church, Russell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; contingency; instrumental conditioning; response pattern; response rate; time cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980041561     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002006     Document Type: Article

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