Convergent results in eyeblink conditioning and contingency learning in humans: Addition of a common cue does not affect feature-negative discriminations

Biological Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-212

  Thorwart, Anna ^a   Glautier, Steven ^b   Lachnit, Harald ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Contingency learning; Eyeblink conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTINGENCY LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PEARCE CONFIGURAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCORIA WAGNER MODEL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, EYELID; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77956747848     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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