Long-interval timing is based on a self-sustaining endogenous oscillator

Jonathon D Crystal1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3013, USA. jcrystal@uga.edu

Behavioural Processes
|February 17, 2006
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