Spontaneous Recovery of Extinguished Fear Responses Deepens Their Extinction: A Role for Error-Correction Mechanisms

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 461-474

  Leung, Hiu Tin ^a   Westbrook, R Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

error correction; extinction; fear; spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEAR; MALE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58949088412     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.4.461     Document Type: Article

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