Analysis of a trial-spacing effect with relatively long intertrial intervals

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 104-115

  Sunsay, Ceyhun ^a,b   Bouton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERTRIAL INTERVAL; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONDITIONAL STIMULUS; WISTAR RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG TERM MEMORY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 46649117174     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.2.104     Document Type: Article

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