Accounting for individual differences in human associative learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Byrom, Nicola C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association learning; Attention; Depression; Individual differences; Perceptual processing; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885348882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00588     Document Type: Review

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