Acquired equivalence of discriminative stimuli following two concurrent discrimination learning tasks as a function of overtraining in rats

Psychological Record

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 327-348

  Nakagawa, Esho ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0033470438     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395323     Document Type: Article

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