Salience modulation and associative inhibition interaction: Short but not long exposure to similar stimuli protects the salience of the unique elements

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-29

  Contel, David M ^a   Sansa, Joan ^a   Artigas, Antonio A ^a   Prados, Jose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative inhibition; Perceptual learning; Salience modulation

Indexed keywords

ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL; INHIBITION; LEARNING; POPULATION DECLINE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AVERSION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; RAT; SALIENCE; VANILLA;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; CITRIC ACID; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRINKING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE; VANILLA; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 78650512124     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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