Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning

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

Volumn 56 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-101

  Baker, A G ^a   Murphy, Robin A ^b   Mehta, Rick ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037316715     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990244000197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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