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 viiPreface x1 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning: Introduction and Intent 1Robert C. Honey and Robin A. MurphyPart I Associative Learning 52 The Determining Conditions for Pavlovian Learning: Psychological and Neurobiological Considerations 7Helen M. Nasser and Andrew R. Delamater3 Learning to Be Ready: Dopamine and Associative Computations 47Nicola C. Byrom and Robin A. Murphy4 Learning About Stimuli That Are Present and Those That Are Not: Separable Acquisition Processes for Direct and Mediated Learning 69Tzu-Ching E. Lin and Robert C. Honey5 Neural Substrates of Learning and Attentive Processes 86David N. George6 Associative Learning and Derived Attention in Humans 114Mike Le Pelley, Tom Beesley, and Oren Griffiths7 The Epigenetics of Neural Learning 136Zohar Bronfman, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva JablonkaPart II Associative Representations Memory, Recognition, and Perception 1778 Associative and Nonassociative Processes in Rodent Recognition Memory 179David J. Sanderson9 Perceptual Learning: Representations and Their Development 201Dominic M. Dwyer and Matthew E. Mundy10 Human Perceptual Learning and Categorization 223Paulo F. Carvalho and Robert L. Goldstone11 Computational and Functional Specialization of Memory 249Rosie Cowell, Tim Bussey, and Lisa SaksidaSpace and Time 28312 Mechanisms of Contextual Conditioning: Some Thoughts on Excitatory and Inhibitory Context Conditioning 285Robert J. McDonald and Nancy S. Hong13 The Relation Between Spatial and Nonspatial Learning 313Anthony McGregor14 Timing and Conditioning: Theoretical Issues 348Charlotte Bonardi, Timothy H. C. Cheung, Esther Mondragón, and Shu K. E. Tam15 Human Learning About Causation 380Irina Baetu and Andy G. BakerPart III Associative Perspectives on the Human Condition 40916 The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation 411Nura W. Lingawi, Amir Dezfouli, and Bernard W. Balleine17 An Associative Account of Avoidance 442Claire M. Gillan, Gonzalo P. Urcelay, and Trevor W. Robbins18 Child and Adolescent Anxiety: Does Fear Conditioning Play a Role? 468Katharina Pittner, Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, and Jennifer Y. F. Lau19 Association, Inhibition, and Action 489Ian McLaren and Frederick Verbruggen20 Mirror Neurons from Associative Learning 515Caroline Catmur, Clare Press, and Cecilia Heyes21 Associative Approaches to Lexical Development 538Kim Plunkett22 Neuroscience of Value]Guided Choice 554Gerhard Jocham, Erie Boorman, and Tim BehrensIndex 592