Associative concept learning in animals

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 130-151

  Zentall, Thomas R ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^b   Urcuioli, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative concepts; Equivalence; Many to one matching; Within class representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE CONCEPTS; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EQUIVALENCE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MANY-TO-ONE MATCHING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; WITHIN-CLASS REPRESENTATION;

ASSOCIATIVE CONCEPTS; EQUIVALENCE; MANY-TO-ONE MATCHING; WITHIN-CLASS REPRESENTATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892673887     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: 19383711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jeab.55     Document Type: Article

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