Indicators of Early and Late Processing Reveal the Importance of Within-Trial-Time for Theories of Associative Learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Lachnit, Harald ^a   Thorwart, Anna ^a   Schultheis, Holger ^b   Lotz, Anja ^a   Koenig, Stephan ^a   Uengoer, Metin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL LEARNING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EARLY PROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEARNING THEORY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PAVLOVIAN SKIN CONDUCTANCE; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; RESPONSE TIME; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SPEEDED CLASSIFICATION TASK; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84879484100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066291     Document Type: Article

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