The role of comparison in perceptual learning: Effects of concurrent exposure to similar stimuli on the perceptual effectiveness of their unique features

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-81

  Rodríguez, Gabriel ^a   Blair, C A J ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVORING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MIXTURE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; RECOGNITION; TASTE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FLAVORING AGENTS; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASTE;

EID: 46649093836     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.2.75     Document Type: Article

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