Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Perspectives

Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior: Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Perspectives brings together psychologists studying cognitive skill in animal and human subjects, connectionist theorists, and neuroscientists who have a common interest in understanding function and dysfunction in t...

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Other Authors: Fountain, Stephen B. (Editor), Bunsey, Michael D. (Editor), Danks, Joseph H. (Editor), McBeath, Michael K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Historical Perspectives
  • 1 Perspectives on Comparative Cognition: Past, Present, and Future
  • 2. Sequential Learning and Memory
  • 2 The Comparative Psychology of Chunking
  • 3 Serial Learning by Rhesus Monkeys: Strategies for List Learning and Execution
  • 4 Monkey Visual and Auditory Memory
  • 5 The Discriminative Stimulus and Response Enhancing Properties of Reward Produced Memories
  • 6 The Organization of Sequential Behavior
  • 3. Counting and Timing
  • 7 Mechanisms of “Counting” in Animals
  • 8 Distortions in the Content of Temporal Memory:Neurobiological Correlates
  • 9 Neural Mediation of Memory for Time: Role of the Hippocampus and Medial Prefrontal Cortex
  • 4. Cognitive Structure
  • 10 Conservation of a Hippocampal Role in Representational Flexibility
  • 11 The Structure of Events
  • 12 The Growth of Cognitive Structure in Monkeys and Men
  • 5. Conclusions
  • 13 Animal Cognition Today and Tomorrow: Diverse Themes