The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning

Robin A. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. A member of The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition editorial board, Professor Murphy has published over 50 scientific articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, PLoS: ONE, Psychopharmacology,and Science. Robert C. Honey is a Professor in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, UK. He is a recipient of Experimental Psychology Society Prize and former Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.  He has published over 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals in the behavioral sciences, including contributions to the The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, PLoS: ONE, and the The Journal of Neuroscience.

About the Contributors vii

Preface x

1 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning: Introduction and Intent 1
Robert C. Honey and Robin A. Murphy

Part I Associative Learning 5

2 The Determining Conditions for Pavlovian Learning: Psychological and Neurobiological Considerations 7
Helen M. Nasser and Andrew R. Delamater

3 Learning to Be Ready: Dopamine and Associative Computations 47
Nicola C. Byrom and Robin A. Murphy

4 Learning About Stimuli That Are Present and Those That Are Not: Separable Acquisition Processes for Direct and Mediated Learning 69
Tzu-Ching E. Lin and Robert C. Honey

5 Neural Substrates of Learning and Attentive Processes 86
David N. George

6 Associative Learning and Derived Attention in Humans 114
Mike Le Pelley, Tom Beesley, and Oren Griffiths

7 The Epigenetics of Neural Learning 136
Zohar Bronfman, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka

Part II Associative Representations Memory, Recognition, and Perception 177

8 Associative and Nonassociative Processes in Rodent Recognition Memory 179
David J. Sanderson

9 Perceptual Learning: Representations and Their Development 201
Dominic M. Dwyer and Matthew E. Mundy

10 Human Perceptual Learning and Categorization 223
Paulo F. Carvalho and Robert L. Goldstone

11 Computational and Functional Specialization of Memory 249
Rosie Cowell, Tim Bussey, and Lisa Saksida

Space and Time 283

12 Mechanisms of Contextual Conditioning: Some Thoughts on Excitatory and Inhibitory Context Conditioning 285
Robert J. McDonald and Nancy S. Hong

13 The Relation Between Spatial and Nonspatial Learning 313
Anthony McGregor

14 Timing and Conditioning: Theoretical Issues 348
Charlotte Bonardi, Timothy H. C. Cheung, Esther Mondragón, and Shu K. E. Tam

15 Human Learning About Causation 380
Irina Baetu and Andy G. Baker

Part III Associative Perspectives on the Human Condition 409

16 The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation 411
Nura W. Lingawi, Amir Dezfouli, and Bernard W. Balleine

17 An Associative Account of Avoidance 442
Claire M. Gillan, Gonzalo P. Urcelay, and Trevor W. Robbins

18 Child and Adolescent Anxiety: Does Fear Conditioning Play a Role? 468
Katharina Pittner, Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, and Jennifer Y. F. Lau

19 Association, Inhibition, and Action 489
Ian McLaren and Frederick Verbruggen

20 Mirror Neurons from Associative Learning 515
Caroline Catmur, Clare Press, and Cecilia Heyes

21 Associative Approaches to Lexical Development 538
Kim Plunkett

22 Neuroscience of Value]Guided Choice 554
Gerhard Jocham, Erie Boorman, and Tim Behrens

Index 592