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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 36, 1984 - Issue 1
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Win-stay behaviour in the rat

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Pages 1-26 | Received 21 Jan 1983, Published online: 29 May 2007

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