The effects of distributional learning on rats' sensitivity to phonetic information

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-101

  Pons, Ferran ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Grup de Recercaen Neurociència Cognitiva ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributional learning; Phonetic discrimination; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; PHONETICS; RAT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31344447425     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.32.1.97     Document Type: Article

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