Stimulus comparison and stimulus association processes in the perceptual learning effect

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 11-23

  Alonso, Gumersinda ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative processes; Flavour aversion; Generalization; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; STIMULUS; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

EID: 0032719268     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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