Ordinal position in the serial learning of rats

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 272-279

  Burns, Richard A ^a   Dunkman Jr , John A ^a   Detloff, Stacy L ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RAT; RECALL; REWARD;

EID: 0032848418     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199725     Document Type: Article

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