On aims and methods in the neuroimaging of derived relations

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 453-483

  Dickins, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain regions; Derived relations; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Matching to sample; Serial learning; Stimulus equivalence; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LOGIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33644785194     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2005.92-04     Document Type: Review

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