Conditioning from an information processing perspective

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 62, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 89-101

  Gallistel, C R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Information; Learning; Models; Randomness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; LEARNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0037471530     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00019-6     Document Type: Article

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