Abstraction, Multiple Exemplar Training and the Search for Derived Stimulus Relations in Animals

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Mark Galizio1, Katherine Bruce1
1Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC, 28403, USA

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