Unblocking in Pavlovian Fear Conditioning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 256-265

  Bradfield, Laura ^a   McNally, Gavan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

associative change; prediction error; surprise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 43449102477     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.2.256     Document Type: Article

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