Partial reinforcement effects on learning and extinction of place preferences in the water maze

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 311-318

  Prados, José ^a,c   Sansa, Joan ^b   Artigas, Antonio A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT;

WATER;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); WATER;

EID: 58149149329     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.4.311     Document Type: Article

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