Multiple-interval timing in rats: Performance on two-valued mixed fixed-interval schedules

Whitaker, Simon, Lowe, Furgus and Wearden, John (2003) Multiple-interval timing in rats: Performance on two-valued mixed fixed-interval schedules. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29 (4). pp. 277-291. ISSN 0097-7403

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Abstract

Three experiments studied timing in rats on two-valued mixed-FI schedules,
with equally probable components, FI S and FI L. When the L/S ratio was
greater than 4, two distinct response peaks appeared close to FI S and L, and
data could be well-fitted by the sum of 2 Gaussian curves. When the L/S ratio
was less than 4, only one response peak was visible, but nonlinear regression
usually identified separate sources of behavioral control, by FI S and FI L,
although control by FI L dominated. The data were used to test ideas derived
from Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET), the Behavioral Theory of Timing
(BeT), and Learning to Time (LeT).

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	(c) American Psychological Association. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Psychological Research School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Health and Social Care Research
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Depositing User:	Simon Whitaker
Date Deposited:	14 Jul 2009 09:42
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2016 04:55
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/4291

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