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Authors: Nestor A. Schmajuk, Jeffrey Gray (Editor), Michael Gelder
ISBN-13: 9780521456968, ISBN-10: 0521456967
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: BK&DISK

Author Biography: Nestor A. Schmajuk

Book Synopsis

This text gives several mechanistic descriptions of complex cognitive behaviors, and shows how neural networks permit the development of useful brain models.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Glossary
1	Neural networks and associative learning	3
2	Classical conditioning: data and theories	17
3	Cognitive mapping	37
4	Attentional processes	56
5	Storage and retrieval processes	74
6	Configural processes	117
7	Timing	136
8	Operant conditioning and animal communication: data, theories, and networks	149
9	Animal cognition: data and theories	187
10	Place learning and spatial navigation	194
11	Maze learning and cognitive mapping	219
12	Learning, cognition, and the hippocampus: data and theories	241
13	Hippocampal modulation of learning and cognition	257
14	The character of the psychological law	295
	References	307
	Companion diskette	325
	Author Index	330
	Subject Index	335

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