Animal Memory
- 1st Edition - November 14, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Werner K. Honig, P. H. R. James
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 5 5 0 5 0 - 7
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 0 6 6 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 3 3 6 - 5
Animal Memory is based on the proceedings of a symposium held at Dalhousie University in the summer of 1969. Each of the seven chapters provide broad coverage of the topic with… Read more
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Animal Memory is based on the proceedings of a symposium held at Dalhousie University in the summer of 1969. Each of the seven chapters provide broad coverage of the topic with which it is concerned, and the experimental work reported is representative of the most significant developments in the field. The book includes two studies on associative memory—the memory of one event which is essential to its association (over a delay) with subsequent events. One study shows that shows that animals can remember events from one learning trial to the next and that their behavior will be determined largely by the sequences of trials with differing outcomes; the other presents research on the association of flavors with toxicosis in a conditioning paradigm. Separate chapters deal with retentive memory—the retention and forgetting of learned behavior over time; and the physiological basis of memory in terms of consolidation theory. These studies demonstrate that animals do forget and examine theories of forgetting. The final chapter provides a critical discussion based on all of the foregoing material in which the topics covered in the book are related to current work on human retention and forgetting.
List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Forgetting of Long-Term Memories in Animals
I. What-if Anything-is Forgotten?
II. The Why of Forgetting
III. Summary
References
Chapter 2. Forgetting as Retrieval Failure
I. Theoretical Framework
II. Measures of Forgetting: "Lapses" and "Losses"
III. Modifications of Interference with Increasing Retention Intervals: Proactive Interference
IV. Retention Loss over Intermediate Intervals
V. General Discussion
VI. Conclusion
References
Chapter 3. Memory and Learning: a Sequential Viewpoint
Part I
I. Historical Background
II. Varieties of Models
III. Memories as Internal Stimuli: Objections to This View
IV. What is Learned: Two Points of View
V. Objections to the Sequential Analysis
Part II
I. Experiment 1: Long ITI's, Irregular Schedules, and Magnitude of Reward
II. Experiment 2: N-Length vs. Number of Nonrewards
III. Experiment 3: Small Trial PRE: N-Length without Prior Reward
IV. Experiment 4: Discrimination Learning
V. Conclusion
References
Chapter 4. The Role of Interference in Association over a Delay
I. Introduction
II. Associative Memory and Retentive Memory
III. Current Interference
IV. Delay of Reinforcement in Instrumental Learning
V. Relevance
VI. Concurrent Interference in Flavor-Toxicosis Associations
VII. Summary
References
Chapter 5. Modification of Memory Storage Processes
I. Neurobiological Correlates of Learning and Memory: Problem of Permanence
II. Experimental Analysis of Time-Dependent Processes of Memory Storage
III. Permanence of Treatment Effects
IV. Nature of the Treatment Gradient
V. Drug Facilitation of Memory Storage
VI. Time vs. Events as Determinants of the Treatment Gradients
VII. Relationships among Memory Storage Processes
VIII. A Storage and a Retrieval Effect of ECS
IX. Neurobiological Bases of Treatments
References
Chapter 6. Effects of Antibiotics on Long-Term Memory Formation in the Goldfish
I. Introduction
II. The Antibiotic Inhibitors of Macromolecular Synthesis
III. Effects of Antibiotics on Learning and Memory in the Goldfish
IV. Possible Mechanisms
References
Chapter 7. Some Issues Relating Animal Memory to Human Memory
I. Introduction
II. Interference Theory and Animal Memory
III. Information Processing Models and Animal Memory
IV. Conclusion
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 14, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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