Timing: An attribute of associative learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 4-14

  Molet, Mikael ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Associative structure; Temporal coding; Temporal integration; Time

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING; ASSOCIATIVE STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL CODING; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894280254     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.05.015     Document Type: Review

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