Simultaneous and sequential feature negative discriminations: Elemental learning and occasion setting in human Pavlovian conditioning

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 136-166

  Baeyens, Frank ^a   Vervliet, Bram ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^a   Eelen, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 2442609881     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0023-9690(03)00058-4     Document Type: Article

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