General Learned Irrelevance and Its Prevention

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 265-280

  Nakajima, Michiko ^a   Nakajima, Sadahiko ^a   Imada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Key Words: general learned irrelevance; prevention; immunization; conditioned suppression; rats

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346403080     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/lmot.1999.1035     Document Type: Article

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