The effects of intertrial and feature-target intervals on operant serial feature negative discrimination learning

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-42

  Holland, Peter C ^a   Morell, Javier R ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030075219     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/lmot.1996.0002     Document Type: Article

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