Two Roles of the Context in Pavlovian Fear Conditioning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 268-280

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

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contextual information; double dissociation; occasion setter; Pavlovian fear conditioning; trial spacing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950931408     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017298     Document Type: Article

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