How the Associative Strengths of Stimuli Combine in Compound: Summation and Overshadowing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 155-166

  Thein, Thida ^a   Westbrook, R Frederick ^b   Harris, Justin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

associative learning; configural; elemental; Pavlovian conditioning; rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; VISION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 39049122664     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.155     Document Type: Article

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