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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 52, 1999 - Issue 2
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Original Articles

Transfer of Learning Between Concurrent and Matching (or Non-matching)-to-Sample Discriminations in Rats

Pages 125-143 | Published online: 22 Oct 2010

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