The 36th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: An associative analysis of spatial learning
The 36th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: An associative analysis of spatial learning
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DOI：
10.1080/17470210902805589
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Pearce, John M.
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作者：
Pearce, John M.
据说，动物在环境中找到重要目标的能力需要一种学习形式，这种学习形式与通常在条件反射实验室中研究的学习形式有本质上的不同。这种空间学习被认为依赖于环境的全局表征的构建，并且根据这种表征获取关于目标位置的知识据说不受其他线索或地标的存在的影响。为了评估第一种说法，本文描述了一些实验，这些实验调查了在一种环境中训练的效果转移到另一种环境的程度。为了评估第二种说法，本文描述了一些实验，调查了通常在条件反射研究中发现的线索竞争效应是否可以在空间任务中发现。总体而言，研究结果表明，大多数空间学习现象可以用联想学习原理来解释。研究结果对理解空间学习的神经机制具有重要意义。
The ability of animals to find important goals in their environment has been said to require a form of learning that is qualitatively different from that normally studied in the conditioning laboratory. Such spatial learning has been said to depend upon the construction of a global representation of the environment, and the acquisition of knowledge about the position of goals with reference to this representation is said to be unaffected by the presence of other cues or landmarks. To evaluate the first of these claims, experiments are described that investigated the extent to which the effects of training in one environment transfer to another. To evaluate the second claim, experiments are described that investigated whether cue competition effects normally found in conditioning studies can be found in spatial tasks. Overall, the results indicate that most of the phenomena of spatial learning can be explained by the principles of associative learning. The implications of the reported results for an understanding of the neural mechanisms of spatial learning are considered.