The interaction between discriminative stimuli and outcomes during instrumental learning

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

Volumn 56 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-139

  Dickinson, Anthony ^a,c   De Wit, Sanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Dept of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0242297827     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990244000223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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