Representational flexibility and the challenge to elemental theories of learning: Response to commentaries

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 451-453

  Shanks, David R ^a   Lachnit, Harald ^b   Melchers, Klaus G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Configural processing; Elemental processing

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HOMINID; LEARNING; MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONING; CONFIGURAL PROCESSING; ELEMENTAL PROCESSING; HUMAN; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LEARNING THEORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

EID: 39449086413     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.09.005     Document Type: Note

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