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- Title
Associative learning in animals: A selective review of recent topics and contribution of Japanese researchers.
- Authors
Nakajima, Sadahiko
- Abstract
This article addressed several important topics in the field of associative learning in nonhuman animals: event contingency, associative retardation (learned helplessness and irrelevance), occasion setting, renewal of extinguished responses, acquired equivalence and distinctiveness, differential outcome effect, and retrospective inference. These topics have been studied with Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning preparations as behavioral test tubes for assessing animals’ cognitive abilities. The empiric data are suggesting highly cognitive abilities of animals in event processing. This article also reviewed studies conducted by Japanese psychologists taking the modern associationists approach. Although activities of Japanese researchers in this field of research are high, they are required to make a more unique contribution to the field.
- Subjects
JAPAN; LEARNING in animals; PAIRED associate learning; ANIMAL cognition; ANIMAL psychology
- Publication
Japanese Psychological Research, 2004, Vol 46, Issue 3, p141
- ISSN
0021-5368
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5584.2004.00247.x