Learning and memory: a comprehensive reference

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"Presents a summary of the present state of research in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory. Covers topics such as the neurochemistry and neurobiology of learning at the cellular and synaptic levels, systems neurobiology, the study of remarkable capabilities in animals (such as homing), ethological and behavioristic analyses, mechanisms, psychology, and disorders of learning and memory in humans."--Publisher description

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Full title :Learning and memory : a comprehensive reference / editor-in-chief, John H. Byrne.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Elsevier
Place of Publication:Oxford, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

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Title from title screen (viewed June 30, 2009).

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (4 volumes) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780123705099, 0123705096
oclc:ocn419265929
LC Classification:BF318
Dewey Decimal:153.1

v. 1. Learning Theory and Behaviour -- Introduction and Overview -- A Typology of Memory Terms -- History of Behavioral Learning Theories -- Multiple Memory Systems: A New View -- Retrieval from Memory -- Operant Behavior -- Perceptual Learning -- Discrimination and Generalization -- Extinction: Behavioral Mechanisms and Their Implications -- Cognitive Dimension of Operant Learning -- Categories and Concepts in Animals -- Learning and Representation -- Attention and Memory in Mammals and Primates -- Amnesia: Point and Counterpoint -- The Nature of Infantile Amnesia -- Transmission of Acquired Information in Nonhuman Primates -- Bird Song Learning -- Adaptive Specializations and Generality of the Laws of Classical and Instrumental Conditioning -- Learning to Time Intervals -- Foraging -- Navigation and Episodic-Like Memory in Mammals -- Memory in Food Caching Animals -- What Do Animals Remember about Their Past? -- Reconsolidation: Historical Perspective and Theoretical Aspects -- Learning and Memory in Communication and Navigation in Insects -- Spatial Learning in Fish -- Reconsolidation in Invertebrates -- Behavioral Analysis of Learning and Memory in Drosophila -- Behavioral and…

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Animal memory Animaux -- Mémoire Apprentissage Apprentissage chez les animaux Educational psychology Human information processing Learning Learning in animals Learning, Psychology of Mémoire Memory Mental Processes Neuropsychology Psychiatry and Psychology Psychological Phenomena and Processes Psychologie appliquée Psychologie de l'apprentissage Psychology, Applied Psychology, Educational Psychopédagogie