Extinction produces context inhibition and multiple-context extinction reduces response recovery in human predictive learning

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 341-352

  Glautier, Steven ^a   Elgueta, Tito ^a   Nelson, James Byron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Extinction; Inhibition; Renewal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING;

EID: 84891851733     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-013-0109-7     Document Type: Article

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