The Harvard Pigeon Lab under Herrnstein.
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The living legacy of the Harvard Pigeon Lab: quantitative analysis in the wide world.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0022-5002
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2002.77-347