Evaluative conditioning depends on higher order encoding processes

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 639-656

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Conditioning awareness; Encoding schemes; Generation processes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 79956142290     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.513497     Document Type: Article

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