Determinants of cue interactions

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-203

  Wheeler, Daniel S ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Counteraction; Cue competition; Learning

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; LEARNING;

ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STIMULUS; TASTE AVERSION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 42249104870     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.02.002     Document Type: Review

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