Negative valence widens generalization of learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 10460-10464

  Schechtman, Eitan ^a   Laufer, Offir ^a   Paz, Rony ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77955399715     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2377-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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