The 28th bartlett memorial lecture causal learning: An associative analysis

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

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-25

  Dickinson, Anthony ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0035256938     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990042000010     Document Type: Article

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