Sample and comparison location as factors in matching acquisition, transfer, and acquired equivalence

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 252-261

  Urcuioli, Peter J ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

EID: 36148964420     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206431     Document Type: Article

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