Hippocampal lesion and transitive inference: Dissociation of inference-based and reinforcement-based strategies in pigeons

Hippocampus

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-226

  Lazareva, Olga F ^a   Kandray, Kaitlyn ^a   Acerbo, Martin J ^b  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative models; Deductive reasoning; Relational memory; Representational flexibility; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84921293528     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22366     Document Type: Article

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