Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior

by Fountain, Stephen B.; Bunsey, Michael D.; Danks, Joseph H.; McBeath, Michael K.

• ISBN13: 9780792375906
• ISBN10: 0792375904
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior: Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Perspectives brings together psychologists studying cognitive skill in animal and human subjects, connectionist theorists, and neuroscientists who have a common interest in understanding function and dysfunction in the realm of complex cognitive behavior. In this volume, discussion focuses on behavioral, cognitive, psychobiological, and computational approaches to understanding the integration of ongoing behavior, with particular attention to models of timing and the organization of sequential behavior.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
PART 1. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES	1	(20)
Perspectives on Comparative Cognition: Past, Present, and Future	3	(18)
Stewart H. Hulse
PART 2. SEQUENTIAL LEARNING AND MEMORY	21	(130)
The Comparative Psychology of Chunking	23	(34)
H. S. Terrace
Serial Learning by Rhesus Monkeys: Strategies for List Learning and Execution	57	(12)
Karyl B. Swartz
Sharon A. Himmanen
Monkey Visual and Auditory Memory	69	(22)
Anthony A. Wright
The Discriminative Stimulus and Response Enhancing Properties of Reward Produced Memories	91	(24)
E. J. Capaldi
The Organization of Sequential Behavior	115	(36)
Stephen B. Fountain
Douglas G. Wallace
James D. Rowan
PART 3. COUNTING AND TIMING	151	(76)
Mechanisms of ``Counting'' in Animals	153	(22)
William A. Roberts
Distortions in the Content of Temporal Memory: Neurobiological Correlates	175	(26)
Warren H. Meck
Neural Mediation of Memory for Time: Role of the Hippocampus and Medial Prefrontal Cortex	201	(26)
Raymond P. Kesner
PART 4. COGNITIVE STRUCTURE	227	(106)
Conservation of a Hippocampal Role in Representational Flexibility	229	(20)
Michael Bunsey
The Structure of Events	249	(20)
Herbert L. Roitblat
The Growth of Cognitive Structure in Monkeys and Men	269	(48)
Brendan McGonigle
Margaret Chalmers
PART 5. CONCLUSIONS
Animal Cognition Today and Tomorrow: Diverse Themes	317	(16)
Stephen B. Fountain
Michael Bunsey
Index	333