Perceptual And Associative Learning

Author : Geoffrey Hall
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191545627

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Traditional theories of associative learning have found no place for the possibility that the way in which events are perceived might change as a result of experience. Evidence for the reality of perceptual learning has come from those studied by learning theorists. The work reviewed in this book shows that learned changes in perceptual organization can in fact be demonstrated, even in experiments using procedures (such as conditioning and simple discrimination learning) of the type on which associative theories have been based. These results come from procedures that have been the focus of detailed theoretical and empirical analysis; and from this analysis emerges an outline of the mechanisms responsible. Some of these are themselves associative; others require the addition of nonassociative mechanisms to the traditional theory. The result is an extended version of associative theory which, it is argued, will be relevant not only to the experimental procedures discussed in this book but to the entire range of instances of perceptual learning.

Author : Chris J. Mitchell,Mike E. Le Pelley
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199550531

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Attention and Associative Learning by Chris J. Mitchell,Mike E. Le Pelley Pdf

This book brings together leading international learning and attention researchers to provide both a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the current state of knowledge of this area as well as new perspectives and directions for the future.

Author : Manfred Fahle,Tomaso Poggio
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262062216

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Perceptual Learning by Manfred Fahle,Tomaso Poggio Pdf

Perceptual learning is the specific and relatively permanent modification of perception and behaviour following sensory experience. This book presents advances made during the 1990s in this rapidly growing field.

Author : Anthony Dickinson,Ian P. L. McLaren
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1841699373

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Associative Learning and Representation by Anthony Dickinson,Ian P. L. McLaren Pdf

The papers published in this Special Issue are based upon presentations at a workshop on "Associative Learning and Representation" which was sponsored by the Experimental Psychology Society at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Author : Andy J. Wills
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135609658

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New Directions in Human Associative Learning by Andy J. Wills Pdf

The editor and authors of this book present a synthesis of work on human associative learning, tracing some of its historical roots but concentrating mainly on recent developments. It is divided into three sections: an introduction to the recent data and controversies in the study of human associative learning; recent developments in the formal theories of how associative learning occurs; and applied work on human associative learning, particularly its application to depression and to the development of preferences. The book is designed to be accessible to undergraduates, providing a clear illustration of how principles most commonly introduced in animal cognition courses are relevant to the contemporary study of human cognition.

Author : J. B. Trobalon & V. D. Chamizo
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : 9788447540198

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Associative Learning and Cognition. Homage to Professor N. J. Mackintosh. In Memoriam (1935-2015) by J. B. Trobalon & V. D. Chamizo Pdf

The present volume is a homage to Professor N. J. Mackintosh (1935-2015), an outstanding academic and a dear friend and colleague to many of the participants, as a final tribute after being awarded the Gold Medal by the University of Barcelona (November 2015). Although the topics of the chapters in this book have been freely chosen by the authors (Geoffrey Hall, Anthony Dickinson, John M. Pearce, Ian McLaren, Paula J. Durlach, Irina Baetu to mention a few), as well as the type of contribution (either an empirical paper, a review, or an application), they concentrate on issues that are crucial to the understanding of the basic principles of attention and associative learning (both Pavlovian and instrumental), in humans and also in other animals. In other words, to unravel the nature of conditioning, with a special emphasis on perceptual learning. The final chapter, by Gabriel Ruiz, addresses the importance of the contribution by Professor Mackintosh to the renaissance of animal psychology in Spain, where the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology (SEPC in Spanish) played a relevant role.

Author : Todd R Schachtman PhD,Steve S Reilly PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199876134

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Associative Learning and Conditioning Theory by Todd R Schachtman PhD,Steve S Reilly PhD Pdf

Although many professionals in psychology (including the sub-disciplines of human learning and memory, clinical practice related to psychopathology, neuroscience, educational psychology and many other areas) no longer receive training in learning and conditioning, the influence of this field remains strong. Therefore, many researchers and clinicians have little knowledge about basic learning theory and its current applications beyond their own specific research topic. The primary purpose of the present volume is to highlight ways in which basic learning principles, methodology, and phenomena underpin, and indeed guide, contemporary translational research. With contributions from a distinguished collection of internationally renowned scholars, this 23-chapter volume contains specific research issues but is also broad in scope, covering a variety of topics in which associative learning and conditioning theory apply, such as drug abuse and addiction, anxiety, fear and pain research, advertising, attribution processes, acquisition of likes and dislikes, social learning, psychoneuroimmunology, and psychopathology (e.g., autism, depression, helplessness and schizophrenia). This breadth is captured in the titles of the three major sections of the book: Applications to Clinical Pathology; Applications to Health and Addiction; Applications to Cognition, Social Interaction and Motivation. The critically important phenomena and methodology of learning and conditioning continue to have a profound influence on theory and clinical concerns related to the mechanisms of memory, cognition, education, and pathology of emotional and consummatory disorders. This volume is expected to have the unique quality of serving the interests of many researchers, educators and clinicians including, for example, neuroscientists, learning and conditioning researchers, psychopharmacologists, clinical psychopathologists, and practitioners in the medical field.

Author : Robert A. Rescorla
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317666288

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Pavlovian Second-Order Conditioning (Psychology Revivals) by Robert A. Rescorla Pdf

Originally published in 1980, this volume explores some of the dramatic and exciting changes that had taken place in the field of conditioning in the 15 years prior to publication. The usefulness of a particular learning procedure, second-order conditioning, is explored in three aspects of the learning process: (1) the measurement of learning; (2) the circumstances that produce associative learning; and (3) the content of that learning. The usefulness of this new paradigm is documented with the results of experiments that had grown out of the author’s programmatic work at the time. Completely new results were published for the first time, in an attempt to demonstrate the power of this particular learning procedure in elucidating fundamental questions about the nature of learning.

Author : Robin A. Murphy,Robert C. Honey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118650943

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The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning by Robin A. Murphy,Robert C. Honey Pdf

The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other. Covers a broad range of topics while maintaining an overarching integrative approach Includes contributions from leading authorities in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, associative learning, and behavioral psychology Extends beyond the psychological study of learning to incorporate coverage of the latest developments in neuroscientific research

Author : Eleanor J. Gibson,Anne D. Pick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0195347390

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An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development by Eleanor J. Gibson,Anne D. Pick Pdf

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their environments and extract information from them before language is available. The ecological approach to perceiving-defined as "a theory about perceiving by active creatures who look and listen and move around"-was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last book in 1979. Until now, no comprehensive theoretical statement of ecological development has been published since Eleanor Gibson's Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969). In An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, distinguished experimental psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick provide a unique theoretical framework for the ecological approach to understanding perceptual learning and development. Perception, in accordance with James Gibson's views, entails a reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her environment: The environment provides resources and opportunities for the person, and the person gets information from and acts on the environment. The concept of affordance is central to this idea; the person acts on what the environment affords, as it is appropriate. This extraordinary volume covers the development of perception in detail from birth through toddlerhood, beginning with the development of communication, going on to perceiving and acting on objects, and then to locomotion. It is more than a presentation of facts about perception as it develops. It outlines the ecological approach and shows how it underlies "higher" cognitive processes, such as concept formation, as well as discovery of the basic affordances of the environment. This impressive work should serve as the capstone for Eleanor J. Gibson's distinguished career as a developmental and experimental psychologist.

Author : Federico Bermudez-Rattoni
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420008412

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Neural Plasticity and Memory by Federico Bermudez-Rattoni Pdf

A comprehensive, multidisciplinary review, Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging provides an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the study of the neurobiology of memory. Leading specialists share their scientific experience in the field, covering a wide range of topics where molecular, genetic, behavioral, and brain imaging techniques have been used to investigate how cellular and brain circuits may be modified by experience. In each chapter, researchers present findings and explain their innovative methodologies. The book begins by introducing key issues and providing a historical overview of the field of memory consolidation. The following chapters review the putative genetic and molecular mechanisms of cell plasticity, elaborating on how experience could induce gene and protein expression and describing their role in synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation. They explore how putative modifications of brain circuits and synaptic elements through experience can become relatively permanent and hence improve brain function. Interdisciplinary reviews focus on how nerve cell circuitry, molecular expression, neurotransmitter release, and electrical activity are modified during the acquisition and consolidation of long-term memory. The book also covers receptor activation/deactivation by different neurotransmitters that enable the intracellular activation of second messengers during memory formation. It concludes with a summary of current research on the modulation and regulation that different neurotransmitters and stress hormones have on formation and consolidation of memory.

Author : Joseph E. Steinmetz,Mark A. Gluck,Paul R. Solomon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134810185

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Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning by Joseph E. Steinmetz,Mark A. Gluck,Paul R. Solomon Pdf

This volume contains a collection of papers written by former students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues of Richard Thompson and represent written versions of papers presented at the Festschrift symposium. The Festschrift provided an excellent opportunity for the participants to recount their memories and experiences of working with one of the leading figures in behavioral neuroscience, and to place their current research in the context of earlier research conducted in the Thompson laboratory. As a Festschrift volume, the various chapters contain numerous and sometimes very personal references to Richard Thompson's influence on the careers of the authors, as well as summaries of past and present work being conducted in the authors' laboratories. Part I includes studies of spinal cord plasticity and the involvement of the hippocampus and related structure in classical eyeblink conditioning. Part II explores the critical role of the cerebellum and associated areas in classical eyeblink conditioning. Part III focuses on a continued exploration of the involvement of the cerebellum in classical eyeblink conditioning using standard procedures as well as innovative molecular biology and genetic techniques. It also includes studies aimed at delineating modulatory influences on learning such as stress and hormonal factors. The incredible influence that Richard Thompson has had on the fields of experimental psychology and neuroscience should be evident on reading the contributions made by the various authors to this volume. The research conducted in Thompson's laboratory over the years has been cutting-edge, comprehensive, and influential. Therefore, this volume is dedicated to Richard F. Thompson a productive, innovative scientist and outstanding mentor.

Author : Jennifer Walinga,Charles Stangor
Publisher : Hasanraza Ansari
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to Psychology by Jennifer Walinga,Charles Stangor Pdf

This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English language
ISBN : UIUC:30112101050067

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Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eleanor J. Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Learning
ISBN : UOM:39015000523731

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Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development by Eleanor J. Gibson Pdf