Stimulus Competition Between a Discrete Cue and a Training Context: Cue Competition Does Not Result From the Division of a Limited Resource

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-211

  Urushihara, Kouji ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^b  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context; CS duration effect; latent inhibition; partial reinforcement effect; total error reduction

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 65649094863     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013763     Document Type: Article

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