At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 99-106

  Blask, Katarina ^a   Walther, Eva ^a   Halbeisen, Georg ^a   Weil, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional resources; Contingency awareness; Evaluative conditioning; Goal directed attention; Mediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864510008     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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