Pavlovian backward conditioned inhibition in humans: Summation and retardation tests

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-305

  Urcelay, Gonzalo P ^a   Perelmuter, Olga ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backwards conditioned inhibition; Human contingency learning; Pavlovian inhibition; Retardation; Summation; Two test strategy

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMINID; INHIBITION; KNOWLEDGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REFERENCE VALUES; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 39449090072     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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