Modulation of the effective salience of a stimulus by direct and associative activation of its representation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-276

  Hall, Geoffrey ^a   Prados, José ^b,c   Sansa, Joan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Habituation; Rats; Stimulus salience

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTRIC SHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROSHOCK; MALE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844523159     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.31.3.267     Document Type: Article

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