Contingency learning and unlearning in the blink of an eye: A resource dependent process

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 235-250

  Schmidt, James R ^a   Houwer, Jan De ^a   Besner, Derek ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connectionist models; Contingency learning; Covariation learning; Event files; Implicit learning; Instance memory; Memory resources; Retrieval; Storage; Unlearning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST;

EID: 77649235426     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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