Context specificity of sensory preconditioning: Implications for processes of within-event learning

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-232

  Ward Robinson, Jasper ^a   Symonds, Michelle ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031808499     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199215     Document Type: Article

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