Behavioural and Neural Aspects of Learning and Memory - Hardcover

9780198521983: Behavioural and Neural Aspects of Learning and Memory

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ISBN 10: 0198521987 ISBN 13: 9780198521983

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1991

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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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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".

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