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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 41, 1989 - Issue 1
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Original Articles

Incentive learning and the motivational control of instrumental performance

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Pages 99-112 | Received 06 Oct 1988, Published online: 29 May 2007

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