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Animal Learning and Cognition N. J. Mackintosh (University of Cambridge, U.K.)

Animal Learning and Cognition By N. J. Mackintosh (University of Cambridge, U.K.)

Animal Learning and Cognition by N. J. Mackintosh (University of Cambridge, U.K.)


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Summary

This volume reviews animal learning, covering basic models such as Pavolvian conditioning, as well as more modern models of animal memory and social cognition.

Animal Learning and Cognition Summary

Animal Learning and Cognition by N. J. Mackintosh (University of Cambridge, U.K.)

How do animals learn? By what means can animals be conditioned? This volume of the acclaimed Handbook of Perception and Cognition, Second Edition, reviews such basic models as Pavlovian conditioning as well as more modern models of animal memory and social cognition. Sure to represent a benchmark of a vast literature from diverse disciplines, this reference work is a useful addition to any library devoted to animal learning, conditioning behavior, and interaction.

Table of Contents

N.J. Mackintosh, Introduction. G. Hall, Pavlovian Conditioning: Laws of Association. A. Dickinson, Instrumental Conditioning. B.A. Williams, Reinforcement and Choice. J.M. Pearce, Discrimination and Categorization. R.G.M. Morris, The Neural Basis of Learning with Particular Reference to the Role of Synaptic Plasticity: Where Are We a Century after Cajal's Speculations? S.J. Shettleworth, Biological Approaches to the Study of Learning. C.R. Gallistel, Space and Time. W.C. Gordon and R.L. Klein, Animal Memory: The Effects of Context Change on Retention Performance. C.M. Heyes, Social Cognition in Primates. D.M. Rumbaugh and E.S. Savage-Rumbaugh, Language in Comparative Perspective. D.R. Shanks, Human Associative Learning. Index.

Additional information

GOR013215251
9780121619534
0121619532
Animal Learning and Cognition by N. J. Mackintosh (University of Cambridge, U.K.)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
1994-11-10
379
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