Overshadowing of explicitly unpaired conditioned inhibition is disrupted by preexposure to the overshadowed inhibitor

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 346-357

  Blaisdell, Aaron P ^a   Savastano, Hernán I ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0032827351     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199733     Document Type: Article

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