Context blocking in rat autoshaping: Sign-tracking versus goal-tracking

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-185

  Costa, Daniel S J ^a   Boakes, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Context blocking; Goal tracking; Rats; Sign tracking; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249083931     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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