LESS-THAN-EXPECTED VARIABILITY IN EVIDENCE FOR PRIMACY AND VONRESTORFF EFFECTS IN RATS NONSPATIAL MEMORY

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作者
GAFFAN, EA [1 ]
GAFFAN, D [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV OXFORD,DEPT EXPTL PSYCHOL,OXFORD,ENGLAND
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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES | 1992年 / 18卷 / 03期
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10.1037/0097-7403.18.3.298
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Reed, Chih-Ta, Aggleton, and Rawlins (1991) reported primacy and other effects in rats' nonspatial memory for lists. The validity of their findings is questionable, because the unexpectedly low variance of the data indicates that the trials in the experiment were not mutually independent events.
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