Primate polemic: Commentary on Smith, Couchman, and Beran (2014)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 132-134

  Le Pelley, Mike E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Conditioning; Metacognition; Reinforcement learning; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COGNITION; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84901394260     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034227     Document Type: Note

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