An Inhibitory Within-Compound Association Attenuates Overshadowing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-143

  Amundson, Jeffrey C ^a   Witnauer, James E ^b   Pineño, Oskar ^c   Miller, Ralph R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cue competition; memory expression; overshadowing; within compound associations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 39049140235     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.133     Document Type: Article

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