Associative accounts of recovery-from-extinction effects

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-15

  McConnell, Bridget L ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative theories; Extinction; Recovery from extinction; Reinstatement; Renewal; Spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894655371     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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