Effect of amount of context extinction on revaluation of a target CS

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-16

  Stout, Steven C ^a   Miller, Ralph ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context extinction; Rat; Target CS

Indexed keywords

RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT EXTINCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 1942485258     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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