A propositional perspective on context effects in human associative learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 104, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-25

  De Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Context effects; Propositions

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; LEARNING; LITERATURE REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTEXT EFFECT; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PREDICTION; PROPOSITION; PROPOSITIONAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899906050     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.02.002     Document Type: Review

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