Retroactive interference and rate of forgetting in delayed matching-to- sample performance

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 158-164

  Harper, David N ^a   White, K Geoffrey ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0030920738     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199053     Document Type: Article

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