Behavioural and Neural Aspects of Learning and Memory - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198521987 ISBN 13: 9780198521983

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1991

Riassunto

The topics discussed in this volume have been chosen to represent studies in which both behavioural and neurobiological analysis have been emphasized. They include work on behavioural and neural aspects of imprinting, song learning in birds, and spatial memory of food-storing birds. There are also overviews of neural and behavioural aspects of classical conditioning, the role of the hippocampus in spatial behaviour in mammals, and studies of learning in invertebrate model systems. Each contribution has been written by a leading international authority and gives an up-to-date and concise account of current developments. The volume is based on a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held in February 1990 and the papers are being published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions Series B.

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Contenuti

L. Weiskrantz: Problems of learning and memory: one or multiple memory systems?; Peter Marler: Song-learning: the interface between behaviour and neuroethology; F. Nottebohm, Arturo Alvarez Buylla, Jeffrey Cynx, John Kirn, Chang-Ying Ling, Marla Nottebohm, Robert Suter, Amanda Tolles, & Heather Williams: Song-learning in birds: the relation between perception and production; P. Bateson: Is imprinting such a special case?; G. Horn: Neural bases of recognition memory investigated through an analysis of imprinting; Sara J. Shettleworth: Spatial memory in food-storing birds; J.R. Krebs: Food-storing birds: adaptive specialization in brain and behaviour?; R.F. Thompson: Neural mechanisms of classical conditioning in mammals; Kent Fitzgerald, William G. Wright, Emilie A. Marcus, & Thomas J. Carew: Multiple forms of non-associative plasticity in Aplysia: a behavioural cellular, and pharmacological analysis; I.P.L. Maclaren & A. Dickinson: The conditioning connection; R.G.M. Morris, S. Davies, & S.P. Butcher: Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and NMDA receptors: a role in information storage?; D.J. Willshaw & J.T. Buckingham: An assessment of Marr's theory of hippocampus as a temporary memory store; R.A. Hinde: The Croonian Lecture. The interdependence of the behavioural sciences; Index.

Product Description

The inter-relationships between neural function and learning are explored in this volume with reference to such topics as imprinting, song-learning in birds, food-storage by birds, conditioning and other learning processes in a range of animals including human and non-human primates. The role of the hipocampus in memory functions is also discussed. The volume includes the Croonian Lecture by Professor R.A.Hinde on the interdependence of the behavioural sciences. Each contribution provides an updated account of current developments. The papers were presented and discussed at a Royal Society meeting in February 1990 and appear in the Society;s "Philosophical Transactions Series B".

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198521987
• ISBN 13: 9780198521983
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Redattore: Krebs J. R., Horn G.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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