A configural theory of attention and associative learning

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 241-254

  George, David N ^a,b   Pearce, John M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attention; Classical conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84870920470     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-012-0078-2     Document Type: Article

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