What are flexible representations?. Commentary on Melchers, Shanks and Lachnit

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-439

  Livesey, Evan J ^a   Harris, Justin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Configural processing; Elemental processing

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMINID; LEARNING; MEMORY; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONFIGURAL PROCESSING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL PROCESSING; HUMAN; LEARNING THEORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR DISCRIMINATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 39449091913     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.09.006     Document Type: Note

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