We develop a general neural network-based architecture for the process of mental simulation, initially treated at a somewhat abstract level. To develop the theory further it is shown how the theory can handle observational learning as a specific form of mental simulation: simulations are presented of simple paradigms and results obtained on children undergoing tests on observational learning. Q...

objective(s):as far as we know,there has been no report regarding the effects of opium addiction or dependency of both parents on the learning and memory process in offspring. the aim of this study was to examine the learning and memory changes of adult male offspring whose mothers, fathers and/or both parents had dependency to opium before and during pregnancy. materials and methods: all exper...

Social fear learning offers an efficient way to transmit information about potential threats; little is known, however, about the learning processes that counteract the social transmission of fear. In three separate experiments, we found that safety information transmitted from another individual (i.e., demonstrator) during preexposure prevented subsequent observational fear learning (Experimen...

This talk will introduce the idea that talent development is related to learning where learning is the physiological process of neuro-plastic changes in the brain. To develop talents, individuals must move from novice or beginner’s status to expertise levels of knowledge or skills in a particular domain. Learning depends on maximizing an individual’s potential through the experience...

Models and theories of category learning may exaggerate the extent to which people adopt discriminative strategies because of a reliance on the traditional supervised classification task. In the present experiment, this task is contrasted with supervised observational learning as a way of exploring differences between discriminative and generative learning. Categories were defined by a simple u...

Observational learning is presumed to have occurred when an organism copies an improbable action or action outcome that it has observed and the matching behavior cannot be explained by an alternative mechanism. Psychologists have been particularly interested in the form of observational learning known as imitation and in how to distinguish imitation from other processes. To successfully make th...