Protection from extinction provided by a conditioned inhibitor

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-79

  McConnell, Bridget L ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949903301     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.1.68     Document Type: Article

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