Obese and Lean Zucker Rats Demonstrate Differential Sensitivity to Rates of Food Reinforcement in a Choice Procedure

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 108, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-27

  Buckley, Jessica L ^a   Rasmussen, Erin B ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

concurrent schedules of reinforcement; generalized matching; obesity; palatability; sensitivity; Zucker rats (fa fa)

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EATING; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; ZUCKER RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EATING; FOOD PREFERENCES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBESITY; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 85027935545     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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