Temporal discounting and inter-temporal choice in rhesus monkeys
Humans and animals are more likely to take an action leading to an immediate reward than actions with delayed rewards of similar magnitudes. Although such devaluation of delayed rewards has been almost universally described by hyperbolic discount functions, the rate of this temporal discounting var...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.08.009.2009/full |