Cognitive Critique
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Edward Tolman’s ideas on cognition and animal behavior have broadly influenced modern cognitive science. His principle contribution, the cognitive map, has provided deep insights into how animals represent information about the world and how these representations inform behavior. Although a variety of modern theories share the same title, they represent ideas far different than what Tolman proposed. We revisit Tolman’s original treatment of cognitive maps and the behavioral experiments that exemplify cognitive mapbased behavior. We consider cognitive maps from the perspective of probabilistic learning and show how they can be treated as a form 43
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