Unequal associative changes when excitors and neutral stimuli are conditioned in compound

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

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-68

  Rescorla, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035260384     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990042000038     Document Type: Article

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