A number of recent studies on the learning of invented patterns in symbol sequences by animals such as cottontop tamarins (Hauser, Chomsky & Fitch 2002:1578; Fitch & Hauser 2004; Hauser 2005; O’Donnell, Hauser & Fitch 2005), songbirds (Gentner 2005), and undergraduates (Fitch & Hauser 2004; Perruchet & Rey, in press) have shown interest in the contrast between two classes of sets of strings: th...

David Guez Faculty of Applied Science The University of Canberra Canberra, Australia [email protected] [email protected] Abstract This article provides the foundation for a new predictive theory of animal learning that is based upon a simple logical model. The knowledge of experimental subjects at a given time is described using logical equations. These logical equations are then used...

Social learning, learning from others, is a powerful process known to impact the success and survival of humans and non-human animals alike. Yet we understand little about the neurocognitive and other processes that underpin social learning. Social learning has often been assumed to involve specialized, derived cognitive processes that evolve and develop independently from other processes. Howe...

• Cognition is the integrating process that utilizes many different forms of memory, creates intemal represen­ tations of the experienced world and provides a ref­ erence for expecting the future of the animal's own actions. It thus allows the animal to decide between different options in reference to the expected outcome of its potential actions. All these processes occur as intrinsic operatio...

Automatically classifying behavior of humans and animals from video is one of the most interesting and challenging fields of computer vision, [3, 1, 6]. Most of the successful human behavior recognition works use as features for classification information extracted from a direct representation of the scene (visual features), as opposed to indirect representations such as silhouettes, body parts...

objective(s) the present study aimed to investigate the effects of a fat soluble antioxidant, coenzyme q10 (coq10) and folic acid on learning and memory in the rats with intracerebroventricular injection of streptozotocin (icv-stz), an animal model of sporadic type of alzheimer's disease. materials and methods the lesion groups were injected bilaterally with icv-stz (1.5 mg/kg b.wt., in no...

introduction: zinc is an essential trace element that plays an important role in synaptic plasticity and modulating the activity of cns and involve in learning and memory. synaptic vesicle zinc in the hippocampus area exerting modulatory effects on nmda glutamate receptor. method: in this experiment the effects of nmda agonist and antagonist administration intra hippocampus on passive avoidance...

Renal tubular cysts arise in several inherited human disorders which include autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), as well as rarer disorders such as autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) nephronophthisis and medullary cystic kidney. Despite their genetic, clinical and histopathological heterogeneity, all these diseases involve a dilation of tubules leading to cy...

The learning of rich associative networks is foundational to language and other advanced cognitive competencies. Such learning is commonly encouraged by direct supervision entailing explicit feedback for correct and incorrect responses. The power of explicit feedback has recently been demonstrated in an animal model (Wasserman, Brooks, & McMurray, 2015), in which pigeons successfully learned to...

Background & Objective: Stress contributes to sleep-wake behavior in all animals. It seems that factors such as learning and memory processes can improve sleep disorders. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the effects of stress and learning (spatial memory) on total post-stress rapid-eye-movement (REM), non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) and waking time in rats. Materials & Met...