Configural learning without configural training

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 373-393

  Healey, A N ^a   Gaffan, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; TEACHING;

EID: 0035491207     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.27.4.373     Document Type: Article

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