Latent Inhibition and Conditioned Attention Theory

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Latent inhibition testing procedures; 3. Variables affecting latent inhibition; 4. Organismic variables affecting latent inhibition; 5. Associative learning tests of the effects of stimulus preexposure in children and adults; 6. Neural substrates of latent inhibition; 7. Theories and explanations of latent inhibition in animals; 8. Conditioned attention theory of latent inhibition; 9. Conditioned attention theory as applied to latent inhibition in humans; 10. Some applications of conditioned attention theory: learned helplessness and schizophrenia; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index.

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