Spontaneous recovery varies inversely with the training-extinction interval

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-408

  Rescorla, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

EID: 15444377939     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196037     Document Type: Article

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