Transfer of learning between concurrent and matching (or non-matching)-to-sample discriminations in rats

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

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-143

  Nakagawa, Esho ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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