The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning

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