ROCs in rats? Response to wixted and squire

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 691-693

  Eichenbaum, Howard ^a   Sauvage, Magdalena M ^a   Fortin, Norbert J ^a   Yonelinas, Andy P ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 51649121131     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1133808     Document Type: Note

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