The smart gut: Tracking affective associative learning with measures of "liking", facial electromyography, and preferential looking

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-93

  Armel, K Carrie ^a   Pulido, Carmen ^b   Wixted, John T ^c   Chiba, Andrea A ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative; Conditioning; Facial EMG; Food; Human; Learning parameters; Learning rate; Liking rating; Logistic; Magnitude; Physiological; Pictures; Preference; Preferential looking; Valence; Valence continuum; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749154436     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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