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Discriminative Avoidance Learning: A Model System

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Neurobiology of Cingulate Cortex and Limbic Thalamus

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Discriminative learning occurs when particular stimuli predict outcomes important to the learner. Thus, for example, animals readily learn to obtain reward or to avoid pain in the presence of stimuli that predict the efficacy of responding, and they learn to remain inert in the presence of nonpredictive stimuli.

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  2. Department of Psychology Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

    Michael Gabriel

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Gabriel, M. (1993). Discriminative Avoidance Learning: A Model System. In: Vogt, B.A., Gabriel, M. (eds) Neurobiology of Cingulate Cortex and Limbic Thalamus. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6704-6_18

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