Unpaired shocks during extinction weaken the contextual renewal of a conditioned discrimination

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-31

  Vervliet, Bram ^a,b   Vansteenwegen, Deb ^b   Hermans, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aversive conditioning; Discrimination learning; Extinction; Human; Renewal; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449532028     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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