A short intertrial interval facilitates acquisition of context-conditioned fear and a short retention interval facilitates its expression

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-172

  Mcnally, Gavan P ^a   Westbrook, R Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CATALEPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; RECALL; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744765809     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.32.2.164     Document Type: Article

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