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Mechanisms in Classical Conditioning: A Computational Approach
Nestor Schmajuk
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Description for Mechanisms in Classical Conditioning: A Computational Approach
hardcover. A neural network view of the processes involved in classical conditioning using computational simulations to analyse actual experimental data. Num Pages: 504 pages, 142 b/w illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 113.
What mechanisms are involved in enabling us to generate predictions of what will happen in the near future? Although we use associative mechanisms as the basis to predict future events, such as using cues from our surrounding environment, timing, attentional, and configural mechanisms are also needed to improve this function. Timing mechanisms allow us to determine when those events will take place. Attentional mechanisms ensure that we keep track of cues that are present when unexpected events occur and disregard cues present when everything happens according to our expectations. Configural mechanisms make it possible to combine separate cues into one ... Read more
What mechanisms are involved in enabling us to generate predictions of what will happen in the near future? Although we use associative mechanisms as the basis to predict future events, such as using cues from our surrounding environment, timing, attentional, and configural mechanisms are also needed to improve this function. Timing mechanisms allow us to determine when those events will take place. Attentional mechanisms ensure that we keep track of cues that are present when unexpected events occur and disregard cues present when everything happens according to our expectations. Configural mechanisms make it possible to combine separate cues into one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521887809
SKU
V9780521887809
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About Nestor Schmajuk
Dr Schmajuk has been an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Buenos Aires (Argentina), an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, and is presently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Here he has developed several neural network models of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, animal communication, creativity, spatial learning, cognitive mapping and prepulse inhibition. Previous books by ... Read more
Reviews for Mechanisms in Classical Conditioning: A Computational Approach
"... a tour de force or at least as a richly referenced tour of the largely pre-21st-century theoretical and empirical literature of classical conditioning. One comes away with a profoundly renewed appreciation for how far the endeavor has come since its launch more than a century ago in St. Petersburg. Even if computational models are only a side interest, ... Read more