Spacing extinction trials alleviates renewal and spontaneous recovery

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-73

  Urcelay, Gonzalo P ^a   Wheeler, Daniel S ^b   Miller, Ralph R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64949165594     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.37.1.60     Document Type: Article

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