Conditioning of tentacle lowering in the snail (Helix aspersa): Acquisition, latent inhibition, overshadowing, second-order conditioning, and sensory preconditioning

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-314

  Loy, Ignacio ^a,b   Fernández, Vanesa ^a   Acebes, Félix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Laboratory of Psychobiology   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELIX ASPERSA; LATENT INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PEAR; SENSORY STIMULATION; SNAIL; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 33750301136     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192885     Document Type: Article

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