The Organization of Learning (Learning, Development and Conceptual Change) - Hardcover

Gallistel, C. R.

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ISBN 10: 0262071134 ISBN 13: 9780262071130

Verlag: MIT Press, 1990

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How do animals represent space, time, number and rate? From insects to humans, Gallistel (psychology, U. of Pennsylvania) explores the sophisticated computations performed in these domains of animal learning. He proposes new hypotheses about brain and mental processes and provides insights about animal behavior using a computational-representational framework that is an alternative to traditional associative theories of learning. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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How do animals represent space, time, number and rate? From insects to humans, Charles Gallistel explores the sophisticated computations performed in these ubiquitous yet neglected domains of animal learning. He proposes new and imaginative hypotheses about brain and mental processes and provides original insights about animal behavior using a computational-representational framework that is an exciting alternative to traditional associative theories of learning.Gallistel argues compellingly that experimental psychologists should begin to view the phenomena of learning within a framework that utilizes as the proper unit of analysis the computation and storage of a quantity, rather than the formation of an association that has been the basis of traditional learning theory. His approach reveals the formal structure of the environmental relationships that animals master to time and orient their behavior. It clarifies what representations different animals can and cannot compute and the nature of the computations by which animals derive these representations.The author backs up this thesis with studies that encompass a vast range of animal learning: animal navigation (the use of dead reckoning and cognitive maps); the mechanisms of timekeeping in the nervous system; the registration and utilization of time of occurrence (circadian phase) in learned behavior; the learning and use of temporal intervals and of numerosity; the computation of rates of occurrence; modern findings and theories of classical conditioning.Gallistel surveys the experimental literature in zoology, biology, neuroscience, and psychology that bears on those aspects of their environment that animals represent and thecomputations they perform in constructing and utilizing those representations. He reveals the fundamental role these representations play in learning and memory, and the implications of these findings in the search for the cellular basis of memory.Charles R. Gallistel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. "The Organization of Learning is included in the series Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change, edited by Lila Gleitman, Susan Carey, Elissa Newport, and Elizabeth Spelke. A Bradford Book

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0262071134
• ISBN 13: 9780262071130
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 662
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