An associative model of rat serial pattern learning in three-element sequences

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

Volumn 56 B, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 301-320

  Wallace, Douglas G ^a,b   Fountain, Stephen B ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERIAL LEARNING; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 0242329378     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990244000304     Document Type: Article

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