Associatively activated representations of food events resemble food outcome expectancies more closely than they resemble food-based memories

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Linwick, Daniel C ^a   Overmier, J Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; FEMALE; FOOD; MEMORY;

EID: 33746206414     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192866     Document Type: Article

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