Rule learning in rats: Serial tracking in interleaved patterns

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-54

  Fountain, Stephen B ^a   Rowan, James D ^a,b   Benson Jr , Don M ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal serial pattern learning; Hierarchical representation; Interleaved patterns; Pattern tracking; Rule learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038987502     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050023     Document Type: Article

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