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. 2011 Jun 6:5:24.
doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00024. eCollection 2011.

Hyperbolic discounting emerges from the scalar property of interval timing

Xu Cui  1
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Hyperbolic discounting emerges from the scalar property of interval timing

Xu Cui. Front Integr Neurosci. .
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