A computational model reveals classical conditioning mechanisms underlying visual signal detection in rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 340-351

  Schmajuk, Nestor A ^a   Bushnell, Philip J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Model; Occasion setting; Operant conditioning; Sign tracking; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONDITIONING; DETECTION METHOD; TRACKING;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; REWARD; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 70350128794     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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