Article: Divided attention and the matching law: Sample duration affects sensitivity to reinforcement allocation

Article: Divided attention performance and the matching law
Learning & Behavior;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......applicability of the generalized matching law to changes in divided-attention...comparisons (two colors or two line orientations) were used. The relative...described by the generalized matching law. We suggest that the bias...parameters of the generalized matching law ...

Article: Research results from Utah State University, Department of Psychology update knowledge of life sciences.
Biotech Week;  August 13, 2008 ;     405 words ...A new study, 'Matching law analysis of rats' alcohol self-administration...Behavioural Pharmacology, The generalized matching law quantitatively describes the relation...studies applying the generalized matching law to alcohol-maintained choice, however...

Article: The effects of instructions on human matching.
The Psychological Record;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......determined constants (the generalized matching law). The parameter k provides an index...of the literature have shown that the matching law has been extensively supported in experiments...subjects who did not show conformity to the matching law (Horne & Lowe, 1993; Navarick ...

Article: Human methadone self-administration and the generalized matching law.
The Psychological Record;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......determine whether in humans the generalized matching law (Davison & McCarthy, 1988; Williams...reinforcers. This relation, the generalized matching law, was formalized as [B.sub.1]/[B.sub...sub.2]) + log c. (3) The generalized matching law assumes that reinforcers maintain ...

Article: A matching law analysis of the effect of amphetamine on responding reinforced by the opportunity to run.
The Psychological Record;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......reinforcement efficacy derived from a matching law analysis of the relationship between...is based on Herrnstein's (1970, 1974) matching law (Hamilton, Stellar, & Hart, 1985...Herrnstein (1970) formulated an elementary matching law equation for the case where there is...

Article: Data on behavior research published by researchers at Fordham University.
Psychology & Psychiatry Journal;  March 7, 2009 ;     356 words ......each alternative, and die generalized matching law, which says choice is it function of...and switch schedules. The generalized matching law described preferences when arrangements...viable alternative to the generalized matching law and that the critical independent variable...

Article: A critical appraisal of contemporary approaches in the quantitative analysis of behavior.(Report)
The Psychological Record;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......what has been called the Generalized Matching Law (GML). This descriptive law uses ratios...As expressed in logarithmic form, the Matching Law is [[B.sub.1]/[B.sub.2]]= k[([Rft.sub...As expressed in logarithmic form, the Matching Law is log ([B.sub.1]/[B.sub.2]) = log k...

Article: Reports summarize life sciences research from Johns Hopkins University.(Report)
Virus Weekly;  November 4, 2008 ;     338 words ......in discriminating and reproducing line orientations, her errors take the form of left-rig...represent the direction of tilt for line orientations. Our results suggest that there exists...representation in the human brain at which line orientations are represented compositionally...

Article: FREE SPEECH
The Boston Globe;  March 5, 2006 ;     78 words ......rendered on the basis of a law passed in 1992. Laws are capricious beasts they come and go. What are the guarantees that Jacoby won't end up in a slammer for his op-ed, say, 10 years from now if a matching law comes along? ANDRE HUZSVAI Boston

Article: Investigators at University of Minnesota zero in on behavior research.
Psychology & Psychiatry Journal;  January 3, 2009 ;     315 words ......similar changed steps. These results held when memory for line orientations was compared with that for inverted faces, wrote Y.V. Jiang...in Perception & Psychophysics (Visual working memory for line orientations and face identities. Perception & Psychophysics, 2008;70...

Article: Bill could target foreigners; HEALTHCARE
The Press;  September 4, 2008 ;     396 words ...Foreigners fleecing millions of dollars from the health system could be caught under a proposed data- matching law. Patients who were ineligible for free healthcare notched bills of more than $1 million at the Canterbury District Health Board...

Article: Ergonomic bell-shaped knobs.(Medical Electronics)
ECN-Electronic Component News;  November 15, 2004 ;     167 words ......said to be ergonomic and space saving. These 16 mm knobs come in soft touch or hard plastic designs with several indicator line orientations. The bell or top-hat shaped knobs accept standard, pan European D-shape for 6 mm shafts with a 4.5 mm flat. Indicator lines...

Article: Visual working memory for line orientations and face identities
Perception and Psychophysics;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......similar changed steps. These results held when memory for line orientations was compared with that for inverted faces. We conclude...more quickly than simple objects such as color patches and line orientations (Alvarez & Cavanagh, 2004; Eng et al., 2005). These...

Article: New regime to track student loans abroad
The Press;  November 14, 2006 ;     472 words ...A new data-matching law will be used to crack down on those leaving the country without declaring they have a student loan. The new regime, matching data...