The Biology of Learning Report of the Dahlem Workshop on the Biology of Learning Berlin, 1983, October 23–28

P. Marler* and H. S. Terrace** *The Rockefeller University Field Research Center Millbrook, NY 12545 **Dept. of Psychology, Columbia University New York, NY 10027, USA For the first half of this century, theories of animal conditioning were regarded as the most promising approach to the study of lea...

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Other Authors: Marler, P. (Editor), Terrace, H.S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1984, 1984
Edition:1st ed. 1984
Series:Life Sciences Research Report
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • General Issues in the Biology of Learning
  • Animal Learning, Ethology, and Biological Constraints
  • Ethology and the Natural History of Learning
  • Genes, Evolution, and Learning
  • The Study of Animal Learning in the Tradition of Pavlov and Thorndike
  • Learning by Selection
  • Biology of Invertebrate Learning
  • Learning in Invertebrates
  • Natural History of Honey Bee Learning
  • Behavior Theory and Invertebrate Learning
  • Work in Invertebrates on the Mechanisms Underlying Learning
  • Biology of Invertebrate Learning: Group Report
  • Biology of Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates
  • The Natural History of Bird Learning
  • Song Learning: Innate Species Differences in the Learning Process
  • A Logical Basis for Single-neuron Study of Learning in Complex Neural Systems
  • The Neural Basis of Imprinting
  • Signals, Conditioned Directed Movements, and Species-typical Response Predispositions in Nonmammalian Vertebrates
  • Cause and Function of Animal Learning Processes
  • Complex General Process Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates
  • Biology of Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates: Group Report
  • Biology of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals
  • Natural History and Evolution of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals
  • Species-typical Response Predispositions
  • Associative Predispositions
  • Learning to See: Mechanisms in Experience-dependent Development
  • Physiological and Anatomical Mechanisms: Neural Bases of Learning
  • Spatial Cognition and Memory in Captive Chimpanzees
  • Biology of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals: Group Report
  • Biology of Learning in Humans
  • Biological Predispositions to Learn Language
  • On Perceptual Predispositions for Human Speech and Monkey Vocalizations
  • Human Learning and Memory
  • Models of Language Acquisition
  • Brain Mechanisms of Language
  • The Neuropsychology of Memory
  • Biology of Learning in Humans: Group Report
  • List of Participants with Fields of Research
  • Author Index