Prediction and preparation: Pavlovian implications of research animals discriminating among humans

ILAR Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-26

  Davis, Hank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confounds; Human discrimination; Pavlovian conditioning; Person as CS; Prediction; Preparation; Preparatory responses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036365525     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.43.1.19     Document Type: Article

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