A comparison of the effects of discriminative and Pavlovian inhibitors and excitors on instrumental responding

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-63

  Lombas, Andrés S ^a   Kearns, David N ^b   Weiss, Stanley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Inhibition; Instrumental learning; Rats; Stimulus compounding; Summation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RODENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

RATTUS;

EID: 40649105959     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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