Augmentation: Synergistic conditioning in taste-aversion learning

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 164-168

  Batsell Jr , W Robert ^a  

^a KALAMAZOO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Blocking; Cancer treatment; Classical conditioning; Taste aversion learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343912     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00085     Document Type: Article

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