Constraints on enhanced extinction resulting from extinction treatment in the presence of an added excitor

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 343-363

  Urcelay, Gonzalo P ^a   Lipatova, Olga ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Concurrent excitor; Extinction; Pavlovian fear conditioning; Phobias

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349743947     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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