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The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other.
* Covers a broad range of topics while maintaining an overarching integrative approach
* Includes contributions from leading authorities in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, associative learning, and behavioral psychology
* Extends beyond the psychological study of learning to incorporate coverage of the latest developments in neuroscientific research
List of contents
About the Contributors vii
Preface x
1 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning: Introduction and Intent 1
Robert C. Honey and Robin A. Murphy
Part I Associative Learning 5
2 The Determining Conditions for Pavlovian Learning: Psychological and Neurobiological Considerations 7
Helen M. Nasser and Andrew R. Delamater
3 Learning to Be Ready: Dopamine and Associative Computations 47
Nicola C. Byrom and Robin A. Murphy
4 Learning About Stimuli That Are Present and Those That Are Not: Separable Acquisition Processes for Direct and Mediated Learning 69
Tzu-Ching E. Lin and Robert C. Honey
5 Neural Substrates of Learning and Attentive Processes 86
David N. George
6 Associative Learning and Derived Attention in Humans 114
Mike Le Pelley, Tom Beesley, and Oren Griffiths
7 The Epigenetics of Neural Learning 136
Zohar Bronfman, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka
Part II Associative Representations Memory, Recognition, and Perception 177
8 Associative and Nonassociative Processes in Rodent Recognition Memory 179
David J. Sanderson
9 Perceptual Learning: Representations and Their Development 201
Dominic M. Dwyer and Matthew E. Mundy
10 Human Perceptual Learning and Categorization 223
Paulo F. Carvalho and Robert L. Goldstone
11 Computational and Functional Specialization of Memory 249
Rosie Cowell, Tim Bussey, and Lisa Saksida
Space and Time 283
12 Mechanisms of Contextual Conditioning: Some Thoughts on Excitatory and Inhibitory Context Conditioning 285
Robert J. McDonald and Nancy S. Hong
13 The Relation Between Spatial and Nonspatial Learning 313
Anthony McGregor
14 Timing and Conditioning: Theoretical Issues 348
Charlotte Bonardi, Timothy H. C. Cheung, Esther Mondragón, and Shu K. E. Tam
15 Human Learning About Causation 380
Irina Baetu and Andy G. Baker
Part III Associative Perspectives on the Human Condition 409
16 The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation 411
Nura W. Lingawi, Amir Dezfouli, and Bernard W. Balleine
17 An Associative Account of Avoidance 442
Claire M. Gillan, Gonzalo P. Urcelay, and Trevor W. Robbins
18 Child and Adolescent Anxiety: Does Fear Conditioning Play a Role? 468
Katharina Pittner, Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, and Jennifer Y. F. Lau
19 Association, Inhibition, and Action 489
Ian McLaren and Frederick Verbruggen
20 Mirror Neurons from Associative Learning 515
Caroline Catmur, Clare Press, and Cecilia Heyes
21 Associative Approaches to Lexical Development 538
Kim Plunkett
22 Neuroscience of Value?]Guided Choice 554
Gerhard Jocham, Erie Boorman, and Tim Behrens
Index 592
About the author
Robin A. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. A member of
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition editorial board, Professor Murphy has published over 50 scientific articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition,
PLoS: ONE,
Psychopharmacology,and
Science.
Robert C. Honey is a Professor in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, UK. He is a recipient of Experimental Psychology Society Prize and former Editor of the
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. He has published over 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals in the behavioral sciences, including contributions to the
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, PLoS: ONE, and the
The Journal of Neuroscience.
Summary
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other.
