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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 44, 1992 - Issue 2
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Original Articles

Response timing and development: Fixed-interval performance in precociously weaned rats

Pages 101-122 | Received 13 May 1991, Published online: 29 May 2007

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