Contextual Fear after Signalled versus Unsignalled Shocks: Effect of Extent of Prior Experience with Context and Signal

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 148-173

  Maes, J H Roald ^a   Fidler, Tara L ^b   LoLordo, Vincent M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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