Effects of concurrent load on feature- and rule-based generalization in human contingency learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-316

  Wills, Andy J ^a   Graham, Steven ^b   Koh, Zhisheng ^b   McLaren, Ian P L ^a   Rolland, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Deliberative processing; Generalization; Rules; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS;

EID: 79960609954     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023120     Document Type: Article

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