ABSTRACT

This volume presents the views and findings of behaviorally and biologically oriented investigators invited to participate in The University of Iowa's biennial learning and memory symposium. While chapters vary in their scope and depth of coverage, they are all amply referenced so that researchers, teachers, and students can obtain background information appropriate to their respective needs.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

Foraging by Rats on a Radial Maze

Learning, Memory, and Decision Rules

chapter 5|24 pages

Preference for Unpredictability is Reversed When Unpredictable Nonreward is Aversive

Procedures, Data, and Theories of Appetitive Observing Response Acquisition

part 10|21 pages

Experience-Dependent Synaptogenesis as a Plausible Memory Mechanism

part 11|19 pages

Biophysical and Biochemical Records of Associative Memory in Rabbit CA1 Pyramidal Neurons and Hermissenda B Cells

part 12|23 pages

Neurobiology of an Attribute Model of Memory: