Associative Learning and Derived Attention in Humans

The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 114-135

  Le Pelley, Mike ^a   Beesley, Tom ^a   Griffiths, Oren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognitive mechanisms; Derived attention; Human learning; Predictive stimuli; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986294547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118650813.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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