The effect of context change upon long-term memory of CS duration

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-76

  Rosas, Juan M ^a,b   Alonso, Gumersinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual change; Inhibition of delay; Long term memory; Rats; Retention interval

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031024536     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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