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Epstein, Leonard H.; Temple, Jennifer L.; Roemmich, James N.; Bouton, Mark E. – Psychological Review, 2009
Research has shown that animals and humans habituate on a variety of behavioral and physiological responses to repeated presentations of food cues, and habituation is related to amount of food consumed and cessation of eating. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of experimental paradigms used to study habituation, integrate a…
Descriptors: Habituation, Models, Food, Memory
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Gluck, Mark A.; Thompson, Richard F. – Psychological Review, 1987
A computational model of the neural substrates of elementary associate learning is developed. It is used to demonstrate that several higher order features of classical conditioning could be elaborations of the known cellular mechanisms for simple associative learning. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Conditioning, Learning Processes, Mathematical Models
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Colunga, Eliana; Smith, Linda B. – Psychological Review, 2005
In the novel noun generalization task, 2 1/2-year-old children display generalized expectations about how solid and nonsolid things are named, extending names for never-before-encountered solids by shape and for never-before-encountered nonsolids by material. This distinction between solids and nonsolids has been interpreted in terms of an…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Generalization, Nouns, Toddlers
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Wickelgren, Wayne A. – Psychological Review, 1976
The notion of strength is defined in several alternative ways for chains of associations connected in series and in parallel. Network strength theory is extended to handle retrieval dynamics for a network of associations, in a manner that permits various degrees of serial versus parallel manner that permits various degrees of serial versus…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Information Processing, Information Retrieval