Overshadowing and blocking as acquisition deficits: No recovery after extinction of overshadowing or blocking cues

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 307-333

  Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 0033217440     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027249999393022     Document Type: Article

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