Learning during the newborn's first meal: Special resistance to retroactive interference

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 581-598

  Cheslock, Sarah J Ferdinand ^b   Sanders, Sarah K ^a   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEWBORN; ODOR; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 8644230086     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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