Occasion setting in Pavlovian ambiguous target discriminations

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 132-147

  Bueno, José Lino Oliveira ^a   Holland, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous target; Discrimination learning; Occasion setting; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

RATTUS;

EID: 53149094633     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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