Attention and Associative Learning

From Brain to Behaviour
Herausgeber: Mitchell, Chris; Le Pelley, Mike

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together leading international learning and attention researchers to provide both a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the current state of knowledge of this area as well as new perspectives and directions for the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780199550531
• ISBN-10: 0199550530
• Artikelnr.: 31970744

Autorenporträt

Dr Mitchell studied for his BSc and PhD in psychology, and also conducted 3 years of post-doctoral research, at University College London (1987-1997). His PhD examined conditioning effects in cancer chemotherapy using a rat model, and was supervised by Prof Cecelia Heyes. His post-doc, also with Prof Heyes, concerned an investigation of imitation in rats. Dr Mitchell then moved north to the Wirral, where he worked for Unilever Research, Port Sunlight, as a consumer scientist. Since July 2000, he has worked in the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia. His first position was as a post doctoral research fellow with Prof Peter Lovibond. Dr Mitchell became a member of faculty in 2002. Throughout this period, the focus of his research has been on human associative and perceptual learning. Dr LePelly studied for his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and carried on to complete his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (investigating human associative learning) at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of I. P. L. McLaren, graduating in 2002. He then held the Sir Alan Wilson Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for just over two years before taking up a lectureship in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University in 2004, and he has been there ever since. Throughout this time his main research interests have been in the fields of human and animal associative learning.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Chris J. Mitchell and Mike E. Le Pelley: An introduction to
attention and learning
* 2: John M Pearce and Nicholas J. Mackintosh: Two theories of
attention: A review and a possible integration
* 3: Geoffrey Hall and Gabriel Rodriguez: Attentional learning
* 4: Lee Hogarth, Anthony Dickinson and Theodora Duka: Selective
attention to conditioned stimuli in human discrimination learning:
Untangling the effects of outcome prediction, valence, arousal and
uncertainty
* 5: Nathan M. Holmes and Justin A. Harris: Latent inhibition
* 6: I.P.L. McLaren , A.J. Wills and S. Graham: Attention and
perceptual learning
* 7: Robert C. Honey, James Close and E. Lin: Acquired distinctiveness
and equivalence: A synthesis
* 8: M. E. Le Pelley: Attention and human associative learning
* 9: Philip Quinlan: On the use of the term 'attention'
* 10: Chris J. Mitchell: Attention and memory in human learning
* 11: JohnK.Kruschke and Stephen E. Denton: Backward blocking of
relevance-indicating cues:Evidence for locally eayesian learning
* 12: Peter C. Holland and Jean-Marie Maddux: Brain systems of
attention in associative learning
* 13: David N. George, Anais M. Duffaud and Simon Killcross: Neural
correlates of attentional set
* 14: Adam Hampshire and Adrian M. Owen: Clinical studies of attention
and learning