Sources of intertrial proactive interference in rats' short-term memory in a delayed successive matching-to-sample modality discrimination

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 485-499

  Cohen, J S ^a   Armstrong, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

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EID: 0030295915     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/lmot.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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