Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning - A Festschrift in Honor of Richard F. Thompson

This Festschrift honors the illustrious research career of Dr. Richard F. Thompson. It reviews his life-long research passion on how the nervous system encodes behavioral plasticity.

List of contents

Contents: J.E. Steinmetz, M.A. Gluck, P.R. Solomon, Preface: The Career and Scientific Contributions of Richard F. Thompson. M.M. Patterson, Classical Conditioning of Spinal Reflexes: The First Seventy Years. T.J. Teyler, Forms of Associative Synaptic Plasticity. G.A. Clark, The Ins and Outs of Classical Conditioning: Maxims From a Mollusk. S.D. Berry, M.A. Seager, Y. Asaka, A.L. Griffin, The Septo-Hippocampal System and Classical Conditioning. P.R. Solomon, Model Systems and Memory: Applications and Extensions to Clinical Neuroscience. M. Gabriel, A.C. Talk, A Tale of Two Paradigms: Lessons Learned From Parallel Studies of Discriminative Instrumental Learning and Classical Eyeblink Conditioning. N.M. Weinberger, Receptive Field Plasticity and Memory in the Auditory Cortex: Coding the Learned Importance of Events. J.E. Steinmetz, The Cerebellum and Classical Eyeblink Conditioning: Much Ado About Something. D.G. Lavond, S.A. Kanzawa, Inside the Black Box. D.S. Woodruff-Pak, S.K. Lemieux, The Cerebellum and Associative Learning: Parallels and Contrasts in Rabbits and Humans. M.A. Gluck, M.T. Allen, C.E. Myers, Medial Septal Modulation of Conditioning: From Two-Stage Theories to Connectionist Models. M.R. Foy, Estrogen and Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus. T.J. Shors, The Modulation of Memory Formation by Stressful Experience and Sex Differences in the Brain. I. Daum, M.M. Schugens, Eyeblink Conditioning Impairments in Patients With Motor Disorders. M.S. Fanselow, Toward a Neurobiology of Functional Behavioral Systems: Contrasting Pavlovian Emotional and Motor Learning.

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Paul R. Solomon, Joseph E. Steinmetz, Mark A. Gluck

Product details

• Authors: Joseph E. Gluck Steinmetz
• Assisted by: Mark A Gluck (Editor), Mark A. Gluck (Editor), Gluck Mark A. (Editor), Paul R Solomon (Editor), Paul R. Solomon (Editor), Solomon Paul R. (Editor), Joseph E Steinmetz (Editor), Joseph E. Steinmetz (Editor), Steinmetz Joseph E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2013
• EAN: 9780415650229
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65022-9
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology