Configural and elemental processing in associative learning: Commentary on Melchers, Shanks and Lachnit

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 446-450

  Wagner, Allan R ^a   Vogel, Edgar H ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Configural models; Elemental models; Pavlovian conditioning; Stimulus processing

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; WEIGHT;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BIOCONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION; BIOCONDITIONAL DISCRMINATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONFIGURAL PROCESSING; ELEMENTAL PROCESSING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LEARNING THEORY; METHODOLOGY; NEGATIVE PATTERNING DISCRIMINATION; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN MODEL; PERCEPTION; REM SLEEP; SIMULATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 39549110231     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.09.011     Document Type: Note

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