Associative structures in animal learning: Dissociating elemental and configural processes

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-103

  Honey, Robert C ^a   Iordanova, Mihaela D ^b   Good, Mark ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural; Elemental; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURAL; ELEMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; RATS;

EID: 84893764808     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.06.002     Document Type: Review

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