Relative Class Concept Learning in Rats - Softcover

Warnick, Jason E.

9783639066418: Relative Class Concept Learning in Rats

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ISBN 10: 3639066413 ISBN 13: 9783639066418

Publisher: VDM Verlag, 2008

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This book details an investigation on the ability of laboratory rats to discriminate between stimuli that were the same or different. The ability to discriminate between similar and differing stimuli (i.e., a relative class concept) has been one of the oldest, and most predominantly employed, methods of cross-species intelligence comparisons. However, while many species have shown relative class concept learning ability, rats have not been shown to have this capacity. Most researchers agree that rats are likely to possess this ability, but the failure to empirically demonstrate the possession of the concept has been an enigma in the field of animal cognition. This manuscript details an attempt to demonstrate the laboratory rat has this capability and seeks to provide avenues for future research in this field.

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Jason E. Warnick, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Arkansas Tech University. His research has been published in many journals, including: Journal of Psychopharmacology, Behavioural Pharmacology, and Behavioural Brain Research. He lives in Atkins, Arkansas with his wife, Kyla Warnick, Ed.S., and son, Ian Emerson Warnick.

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