Remembering: The role of extraneous reinforcement

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 309-323

  Brown, Glenn S ^a   White, K Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVE FITTING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33751025457     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192860     Document Type: Article

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