Learning about associatively activated stimulus representations: Implications for acquired equivalence and perceptual learning

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-255

  Hall, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOKED RESPONSE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 0029812404     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198973     Document Type: Review

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