1st Edition
Information Processing in Animals Memory Mechanisms
400 Pages
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Psychology Press
400 Pages
by
Psychology Press
432 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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First published in 1982. During the past fifty years, dramatic changes have occurred in the use of laboratory animals to study learning and memory. Yet the basic reasons for this research, diverse as they are, have not changed. At one extreme is the need for relatively direct application of findings with animal models to medical or educational problems of humans; at the other extreme, the quest... Read more
Preface, Prologue: Reminiscences, 1. SOP: A Model of Automatic Memory Processing in Animal Behavior, 2. Differences in Adaptiveness Between Classically Conditioned Responses and Instrumentally Acquired Responses, 3. Within-Event Learning in Paviovian Conditioning, 4. Long-Delay Conditioning and Instrumental Learning: Some New Findings, 5. Actions and Habits: Variations in Associative Representations During Instrumental Learning, 6. Working Memory and the Temporal Map, 7. Directed Forgetting in Animals, 8. Short-Term Memory in the Pigeon, 9. Studies of Long-Term Memory in the Pigeon, 10. Postacquisition Modification of Memory, 11. Mechanisms of Cue-Induced Retention Enhancement, 12. Extending the Domain of Memory Retrieval, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
Norman E. Spear and Ralph R. Miller both State University of New York at Binghamton
