Associative Learning and Representation: An EPS Workshop for N.J. Mackintosh : A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section B

Anthony Dickinson

ISBN 10: 1841699373 / ISBN 13: 9781841699370

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Mär 2003, 2003

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Neuware - The papers published in this Special Issue of The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section B, are based upon presentations at a workshop on 'Associative Learning and Representation' which was sponsored by the Experimental Psychology Society at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Workshop celebrated the contribution of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh to animal learning and conditioning in particular and experimental psychology in general in the year of his retirement from the Chair of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. The papers collected here focus on issues that are of relevance to learning in both humans and other animals, being particularly concerned with the nature of representation and how representations are developed and deployed. The topics addressed included stimulus representation and perceptual learning, discrimination learning, learned irrelevance, retrospective revaluation, discriminative control, and spatial learning.

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• Title: Associative Learning and Representation: An EPS Workshop for N.J. Mackintosh : A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section B
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mär 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841699373
• ISBN 13: 9781841699370
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 162H x 16D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 360 grams

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The papers published in this Special Issue of The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section B, are based upon presentations at a workshop on "Associative Learning and Representation" which was sponsored by the Experimental Psychology Society at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Workshop celebrated the contribution of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh to animal learning and conditioning in particular and experimental psychology in general in the year of his retirement from the Chair of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. The papers collected here focus on issues that are of relevance to learning in both humans and other animals, being particularly concerned with the nature of representation and how representations are developed and deployed. The topics addressed included stimulus representation and perceptual learning, discrimination learning, learned irrelevance, retrospective revaluation, discriminative control, and spatial learning.

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Anthony Dickinson, Ian P.L. McLaren