The Organization of Sequential BehaviorConditioning, Memory, and Abstraction

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fountain, Stephen B ^a   Rowan, James D ^b   Muller, Melissa D ^c   Kundey, Shannon M A ^d   Pickens, Laura R G ^a   Doyle, Karen E ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION   (United States)

^d HOOD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent nicot; Associative learning; Chunking; Concurrent cognitive processing; Dizocilpine; Hierarchical pattern learning; Interleaved pattern learning; Mk 801; Phrasing; Rule learning; Sequential behavior; Sequential learning; Serial Pattern learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923529160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392661.013.0031     Document Type: Chapter

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