Attentional and Error-Correcting Associative Mechanisms in Classical Conditioning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-418

  Schmajuk, Nestor ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

associations; attention; conditioning; error correcting rule

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RATS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 67650572529     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014737     Document Type: Article

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