Animal cognition and sequential behavior : behavioral, biological, and computational perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Kent Psychological Forum
Other Authors: Fountain, Stephen B.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Historical perspectives
  • Perspectives on comparative cognition
  • pt. 2. Sequential learning and memory
  • The comparative psychology of chunking
  • Serial learning by Rhesus monkeys : strategies for list learning and execution
  • Monkey visual and auditory memory
  • The discriminative stimulus and response enhancing properties of reward produced memories
  • The organization of sequential behavior
  • pt. 3. counting and timing
  • Mechanisms of "counting" in animals
  • Distortions in the content of temporal memory : neurobiological correlates
  • Neural mediation of memory for time : role of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex
  • pt. 4. Cognitive structure
  • Conservation of a hippocampal role in representational flexibility
  • The structure of events
  • The growth of cognitive structure in monkeys
  • pt. 5. Conclusions
  • Animal cognition today and tomorrow : diverse themes