Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 979-990

  Waldmann, Michael R ^a   Schmid, Martina ^b   Wong, Jared ^b   Blaisdell, Aaron P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency learning; Event representation; Extinction; Renewal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84865432273     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0524-8     Document Type: Article

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