A Discrimination without Previous Conditioning

Discrimination learning in a verbal conditioning situation.

Similarity and Discrimination in Classical Conditioning: A Latent Variable Account

We propose a probabilistic, generative account of configural learning phenomena in classical conditioning. Configural learning experiments probe how animals discriminate and generalize between patterns of simultaneously presented stimuli (such as tones and lights) that are differentially predictive of reinforcement. Previous models of these issues have been successful more on a phenomenological...

Discrimination Learning Without Reward I

THE long standing question surrounding the necessary and sufficient conditions for learning are as real today as when originally posed in the first half of the century [4, 6, 9]. The past years of formalizing data from animal learning experiments has yielded more adaptation to the problem than understanding. Curiously, the simple theoretical notions derived from this work (SR theory, contiguity...

A Stuttering - Robust Temporal Logic with \ Next " but without \ Previous "

The logic TLR, introduced in 1], is a temporal logic that is insensitive to stuttering but still possesses a well-deened next operator. Due to the combination of these two features, it presents an attractive foundation for studying reenement between reactive programs in a TL framework. A drawback of TLR is that completeness is achieved at the price of introducing the previous operator, as the o...

Discrimination, previous experience and substrate selection by the amphipod Corophium.

The experiments reported below were undertaken to give more information about why animals prefer one habitat or substrate to another. They are a continuation of work already reported on substrate selection by Corophium volutator (Meadows, 1964 a, b, c). Consider an experiment in which animals may choose between two substrates, A and B, and in which at equilibrium 75 % are found in A and 25 % in...