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2022-01-01
A method for studying reinforcement factors controlling impulsive choice for use in behavioral neuroscience.
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 117:363-383.
2022-01-01
2021-03-01
Is Shimp’s (2021) approach really less divisive
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 115:604-610.
2021-03-01
2021-01-01
Effects of chlordiazepoxide on pausing during rich-to-lean transitions.
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 116:3-20.
2021-01-01
2020-04-01
Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude: Implications for effects of opioids on impulsive and risky choice
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Behavioural Pharmacology
. 31:221-232..
2020-04-01
2019-12-01
Transitions from rich-to-lean schedules increase attack in a laboratory model of social aggression in pigeons: I. Fixed-ratio schedules
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Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis
. 45:500-518.
2019-12-01
2019-12-01
Transitions from rich-to-lean schedules increase attack in a laboratory model of social aggression in pigeons: II. Fixed-interval schedules
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Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis
. 45:519-546.
2019-12-01
2019-07-01
Assessing functions of stimuli associated with rich-to-lean transitions using a choice procedure
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 112:97-110.
2019-07-01
2017-01-01
Escape from rich-to-lean transitions: Stimulus change and timeout
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 107:65-84.
2017-01-01
2016-12-01
Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement delay and to reinforcement amount in pigeons: Implications for impulsive choice
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Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
. 24:464-476.
2016-12-01
2016-03-01
Limits to preference and the sensitivity of choice to rate and amount of food
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 105:322-337.
2016-03-01
2015-01-01
Effects of MDMA, methamphetamine and methylphenidate on repeated acquisition and performance in rats.
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Psychopharmacology
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2015-01-01
2015-01-01
Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Effects of morphine on sensitivity to reinforcement amount
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Explorations
. 10:1-20.
2015-01-01
2014-07-01
Concurrent performance as engagement bouts
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 102:102-125.
2014-07-01
2014-05-01
Preference pulses without reinforcers
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 101:317-336.
2014-05-01
2014-05-01
Reconsidering the concept of behavioral mechanisms of drug action
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 101:422-441.
2014-05-01
2010-01-01
Choice in a variable environment: Effects of d-amphetamine on sensitivity to reinforcement.
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Behavioural Processes
. 460-464.
2010-01-01
2009-01-01
Effects of MDMA, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate on repeated acquisition and performance in rats.
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Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior
. 305-311.
2009-01-01
2009-01-01
Effects of d-amphetamine on behavior maintained by signaled and unsignaled delays to reinforcement.
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Behavioural Processes
. 81:264-269.
2009-01-01
2009-01-01
Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent schedules: Effects of d-amphetamine on sensitivity to reinforcement amount.
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Behavioural Processes
. 81:238-243.
2009-01-01
2006-12-01
Chlordiazepoxide and dizocilpine, but not morphine, selectively impair acquisition under a novel repeated-acquisition and performance task in rats.
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Psychopharmacology
. 189:135-43.
2006-12-01
2006-01-01
Identity Matching-to-Sample with Olfactory Stimuli in Rats
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
. 85:203-221.
2006-01-01
2005-10-01
Chlordiazepoxide interactions with scopolamine and dizocilpine: novel cooperative and antagonistic effects on spatial learning.
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Behavioral neuroscience
. 119:1331-8.
2005-10-01
2003-02-01
Effects of positive GABA(A) modulators on a multiple-component, repeated-acquisition test of spatial learning.
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Behavioural pharmacology
. 14:67-75.
2003-02-01
2003-02-01
Repeated spatial acquisition: effects of NMDA antagonists and morphine.
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Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology
. 11:79-90.
2003-02-01
2002-09-01
Navigation in the Morris swim task as a baseline for drug discrimination: a demonstration with morphine.
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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
. 78:215-23.
2002-09-01
Presentations
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38th annual conference
2022-10-01
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38th annual conference
2022-10-01
An efficient method for studying reinforcement mechanisms controlling impulsive choice for use in behavioral neuroscience.
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Symposium conducted at the 11th International Conference
2022-09-01
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48th annual conference
2022-05-01
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48th annual conference
2022-05-01
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48th annual conference
2022-05-01
Assessing the punishing effects of stimuli associated with rich-to-lean transitions.
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Student Symposium presented at the 33rd annual conference
2022-05-01
Assessing the punishing effects of stimuli associated with rich-to-lean transitions.
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Symposium presented at the 48th annual conference
2022-02-01
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37th annual conference
2021-10-01
Aversive functions of stimuli within rich-lean transitions
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2021-10-01
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47th annual conference
2021-05-01
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47th annual conference
2021-05-01
Effects of chlordiazepoxide on pausing during rich-to-lean transitions
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2021-05-01
Oxycodone and sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude: Implications for opioid effects on impulsive and risky choice
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2021-05-01
Oxycodone and sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude: Implications for opioid effects on impulsive and risky choice
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47th annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2021-05-01
Oxycodone and sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude: Implications for opioid effects on impulsive and risky choice.
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Symposium presented at the 47th annual conference
2021-05-01
Oxycodone impacts sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude in male and female rats: Implications for impulsive/risky choice.
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2021-05-01
Behavioral pharmacology of impulsive and risky choice: Reinforcement mechanisms
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annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis
2020-02-01
Oxycodone decreases sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude in male and female rats: Implications for impulsive and risky choice
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36st annual conference of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2019-10-01
Oxycodone decreases sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude in male and female rats: Implications for impulsive and risky choice.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2019-10-01
Effects of rich-to-lean transitions in a model of social aggression in pigeons
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-09-01
Effects of rich-to-lean transitions in a model of social aggression in pigeons
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10th International Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-09-01
Choices in situations of time-based diminishing returns: Effects of methylphenidate on “impulsive” behavior
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41st annual conference of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2019-05-01
Choices in situations of time-based diminishing returns: Effects of methylphenidate on “impulsive” behavior.
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Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2019-05-01
Methylphenidate alters sensitivity to reinforcement amount, delay, and probability: Implications for impulsive/risky choice
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-05-01
Methylphenidate alters sensitivity to reinforcement amount, delay, and probability: Implications for impulsive/risky choice
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45th annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-05-01
Opioids and impulsive choice: Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount.
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-05-01
The Effects of Timeout Duration on a Concurrent Progressive-Interval Schedule
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45th annual conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-05-01
The Effects of Timeout Duration on a Concurrent Progressive-Interval Schedule.
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2019-05-01
Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2018-10-01
Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount: Implications of impulsive choice and opioid use
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35th annual conference of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2018-10-01
Can rats perform the Marshmallow Test?
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2018-05-01
Can rats perform the marshmallow test?
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44th annual conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2018-05-01
Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement amount, delay, and probability.
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2018-05-01
Methylphenidate alters sensitivity to reinforcement amount, delay, and probability: Implications for impulsive and risky choice
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44th annual conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2018-05-01
Effects of chlordiazepoxide on pausing in rich-to-lean transitions in pigeons
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34th annual conference of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2017-10-01
Effects of chlordiazepoxide on pausing in rich-to-lean transitions in pigeons.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2017-10-01
Rich-to-lean transitions: Separate and combined effects of work requirement and reinforcement amount
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34th annual conference of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2017-10-01
Rich-to-lean transitions: Separate and combined effects of work requirement and reinforcement amount.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2017-10-01
Timeout from positive reinforcement.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2017-10-01
Can rats perform the marshmallow test?
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Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2017-05-01
Pigeons’ preference between mixed- and multiple-schedule stimuli on fixed-ratio schedules.
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Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2017-05-01
Trials and tribulations of timeout research in the lab
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2017-05-01
Trials and tribulations of timeout research in the lab
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43rd annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2017-05-01
Chlordiazepoxide effects in pigeons responding under fixed-ratio schedules.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2017-03-01
Delay discounting vs. delay of gratification in rats.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2017-03-01
Effects of the duration of timeout from positive reinforcement.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2017-03-01
Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Is sensitivity to amount affected by the specific amount ratio in effect.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2017-03-01
Rich- to-lean transitions: Separate and combined effects of work requirement and reinforcement amount.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2017-03-01
Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement amount and delay: Implications for impulsive choice
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33nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2016-10-01
Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement amount and delay: Implications for impulsive choice.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2016-10-01
Pigeons’ preference between mixed and multiple-schedule stimuli on fixed-ratio schedules
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33nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2016-10-01
Pigeons’ preference between mixed- and multiple-schedule stimuli on FR schedules.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2016-10-01
Rapid acquisition in concurrent chains: Effects of varying the reinforcer ratio on sensitivity to amount
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33nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2016-10-01
Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Is sensitivity to amount affected by the specific amount ratio in effect.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2016-10-01
Effects of methylphenidate on “impulsive” choice: Sensitivity to reinforcement amount or reinforcement delay?
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2016-04-01
Pigeons’ preference between mixed- and multiple-schedule stimuli on FR schedules.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2016-04-01
Punishing effects of work signals on behavior.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2016-04-01
Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Effects of varying reinforcer ratio on sensitivity to amount.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2016-04-01
Effects of methylphenidate on "impulsive" choice: Sensitivity to amount or sensitivity to delay?
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2015-10-01
Methylphenidate and “impulsive” choice: Sensitivity to delay or sensitivity to amount?
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32nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2015-10-01
Rapid acquisition in concurrent chains: Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount
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32nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2015-10-01
Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis,
2015-10-01
Time-out as escape from rich-to-lean transitions.
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Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2015-10-01
Methylphenidate and "self-control": Using quantitative analyses to identify behavioral mechanisms
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2015-09-01
Methylphenidate and “self-control”: Using quantitative analyses to isolate behavioral mechanisms
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8th International Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
2015-09-01
Effects of morphine and oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount
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38th annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2015-05-01
Effects of the Opiates Morphine and Oxycodone on Sensitivity to Reinforcement Amount.
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Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2015-05-01
Delay-discounting effects on rats using matching-law analyses.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2015-04-01
Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement amount.
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium
2015-04-01
Is the stimulus correlated with rich-to-lean transitions aversive?
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31th annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2014-10-01
Investigation of some familiar and not-so-familiar “punishers.”
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2013-11-01
Effects of morphine on choice in a dynamic environment.
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36th annual Association for Behavior Analysis International
2010-05-01
Effects of raclopride and quinpriole in the impulsive choices of Lewis and Fischer 344 rats
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36th annual Association for Behavior Analysis International
2010-05-01
Experience with a novel task reverses differences in impulsivity between Lewis and Fischer 344 rats.
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36th annual Association for Behavior Analysis International
2010-05-01
Is resistance to change controlled by reinforcement or by the total number of reinforcers delivered?
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annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2010-05-01
Rapid acquisition in concurrent chains: Effects of morphine on preference controlled by reinforcement delay.
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annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2010-05-01
Rapid acquisition in concurrent chains: effects of morphine on preference controlled by reinforcement delay
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Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2010-05-01
Within-session discount functions in rats using randomly ordered and ascending delays
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36th annual Association for Behavior Analysis International
2010-05-01
Rapid acquisition in concurrent chains: Development of control by reinforcement delay.
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26th annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2009-10-01
Within-session discount functions in rats with randomly-ordered and ascending delays.
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26th annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2009-10-01
Behavioral mechanisms of drug action: What are they and how do we identify them?
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Association for Behavior Analysis International
2009-05-01
Choice in a variable environment: Do findings depend on level of aggregation?
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Symposium 35th annual Association for Behavior Analysis
2009-05-01
Choice in a variable environment: Effects of d-amphetamine.
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Annual Meeting Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
2009-05-01
Effects of relative amount and rate of food on preference.
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Symposium 35th annual Association for Behavior Analysis
2009-05-01
Within-session discount functions in rats with randomly ordered delays: Effects of d-amphetamine.
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35th annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis
2009-05-01
Choice in a variable environment: Do Davison & Baum’s findings depend on large aggregates of data?
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annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2008-10-01
Differences in impulsive choices between Lewis and Fischer 344 Rats.
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annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
2008-10-01
Differences in impulsive choices between Lewis and Fischer 344 rats.
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Annual Meeting fo the Southeastern Assoc. for Behavior Analysis
2008-10-01
Within-session discount functions in rats with randomly ordered delays.
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annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis
Within-session discount functions in rats with randomly ordered delays.
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annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis
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Prescription Opioids, Impulsivity, and Risk Taking: Identifying Reward Mechanisms
2019-02-01 -
Prescription Opioids, Impulsivity, and Risk Taking: Identifying Reward Mechanisms
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Pitts