Blocking in rats, humans and snails using a within-subjects design

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 23-31

  Prados, Jose ^a   Alvarez, Beatriz ^b   Acebes, Félix ^b   Loy, Ignacio ^b   Sansa, Joan ^c   Moreno Fernández, Maria Manuela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blocking; Comparative psychology; Invertebrate learning; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ODOR; RODENT; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAVOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SNAIL; TRAINING;

BLOCKING; COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE LEARNING; PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SNAILS; TASTE;

EID: 84882744134     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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