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First published in 1982. During the past fifty years, dramatic changes have occurred in the use of laboratory animals to study learning and memory. Yet the basic reasons for this research, diverse as they are, have not changed. At one extreme is the need for relatively direct application of findings with animal models to medical or educational problems of humans; at the other extreme, the quest for understanding animal behavior for its own sake. It is probably fair to say that no chapters in this book represent either of these extremes, although in each case the author’s purposes can be said to be like those of some scientists working in this area fifty years ago. In contrast to this continuity of purpose, the approach that scientists now take in this area of study is really quite different from that of most or all scientists in the 1930s.

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Author:   N. E. Spear ,  R. R. Miller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780898591576

ISBN 10:   0898591570
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 March 1982
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface, Prologue: Reminiscences, 1. SOP: A Model of Automatic Memory Processing in Animal Behavior, 2. Differences in Adaptiveness Between Classically Conditioned Responses and Instrumentally Acquired Responses, 3. Within-Event Learning in Paviovian Conditioning, 4. Long-Delay Conditioning and Instrumental Learning: Some New Findings, 5. Actions and Habits: Variations in Associative Representations During Instrumental Learning, 6. Working Memory and the Temporal Map, 7. Directed Forgetting in Animals, 8. Short-Term Memory in the Pigeon, 9. Studies of Long-Term Memory in the Pigeon, 10. Postacquisition Modification of Memory, 11. Mechanisms of Cue-Induced Retention Enhancement, 12. Extending the Domain of Memory Retrieval, Author Index, Subject Index

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Norman E. Spear and Ralph R. Miller both State University of New York at Binghamton

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