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Associative learning and animal cognition
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Associative learning plays a variety of roles in the study of animal cognition from a core theoretical component to a null hypothesis against which the contribution of cognitive processes is assessed. Two developments in contemporary associative learning have enhanced its relevance to animal cognition. The first concerns the role of associatively activated representations, whereas the second is the development of hybrid theories in which learning is determined by prediction errors, both directly and indirectly through associability processes. However, it remains unclear whether these developments allow associative theory to capture the psychological rationality of cognition. I argue that embodying associative processes within specific processing architectures provides mechanisms that can mediate psychological rationality and illustrate such embodiment by discussing the relationship between practical reasoning and the associative-cybernetic model of goal-directed action.
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- Authors
- Dickinson, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Dickinson, Anthony
- ORCID
- Dickinson, Anthony
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2012-10-05
- Volume
- 367
- Issue
- 1603
- Pages
- 2733-2742
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC3427555
- OpenAlex
- W2096798307
- Cited by
- 219
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Keywords
- associative learning, animal cognition, associative representations, prediction error, embodiment, practical reasoning, goal-directed action, cybernetic model
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Association Learning, Behavior, Animal, Cognition, Conditioning, Psychological, Cybernetics, Habits, Memory, Rationalization, Reinforcement, Psychology, Computational Biology
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