Long-term maintenance of immediate or delayed extinction is determined by the extinction-test interval

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 639-644

  Johnson, Justin S ^a   Escobar, Martha ^a   Kimble, Whitney L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; RELAPSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649604292     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1932310     Document Type: Article

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