Animal learning and cognition

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...

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Other Authors: Mackintosh, N. J. 1935-, ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, 1994.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 379 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.)
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Summary: 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.
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pavlovian conditioning : laws of association / Geoffrey Hall -- Instrumental conditioning / Anthony Dickinson -- Reinforcement and choice / Ben A. Williams -- Discrimination and categorization / John M. Pearce -- Neural basis of learning with particular reference to the role of synaptic plasticity : where are we a century after Cajal's speculations? / Richard G.M. Morris -- Biological approaches to the study of learning / Sara J. Shettleworth -- Space and time / C.R. Gallistel -- Animal memory : the effects of context change on retention performance / William C. Gordon and Rodney L. Klein -- Social cognition in primates / C.M. Heyes -- Language in comparative perspective / Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- Human associative learning / David R. Shanks.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL.
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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.
English.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 379 pages) : illustrations.
Format: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080571690
0080571697