Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Modelling perception with artificial neural networks
- Part I General themes
- Part II The use of artificial neural networks to elucidate the nature of perceptual processes in animals
- 3 Correlation versus gradient type motion detectors: the pros and cons
- 4 Spatial constancy and the brain: insights from neural networks
- 5 The interplay of Pavlovian and instrumental processes in devaluation experiments: a computational embodied neuroscience model tested with a simulated rat
- 6 Evolution, (sequential) learning and generalisation in modular and nonmodular visual neural networks
- 7 Effects of network structure on associative memory
- 8 Neural networks and neuro-oncology: the complex interplay between brain tumour, epilepsy and cognition
- Part III Artificial neural networks as models of perceptual processing in ecology and evolutionary biology
- Part IV Methodological issues in the use of simple feedforward networks
- Index
- References
5 - The interplay of Pavlovian and instrumental processes in devaluation experiments: a computational embodied neuroscience model tested with a simulated rat
from Part II - The use of artificial neural networks to elucidate the nature of perceptual processes in animals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Modelling perception with artificial neural networks
- Part I General themes
- Part II The use of artificial neural networks to elucidate the nature of perceptual processes in animals
- 3 Correlation versus gradient type motion detectors: the pros and cons
- 4 Spatial constancy and the brain: insights from neural networks
- 5 The interplay of Pavlovian and instrumental processes in devaluation experiments: a computational embodied neuroscience model tested with a simulated rat
- 6 Evolution, (sequential) learning and generalisation in modular and nonmodular visual neural networks
- 7 Effects of network structure on associative memory
- 8 Neural networks and neuro-oncology: the complex interplay between brain tumour, epilepsy and cognition
- Part III Artificial neural networks as models of perceptual processing in ecology and evolutionary biology
- Part IV Methodological issues in the use of simple feedforward networks
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The flexibility and capacity of adaptation of organisms greatly depends on their learning capabilities. For this reason, animal psychology has devoted great efforts to the study of learning processes. In particular, in the last century a huge body of empirical data has been collected around the two main experimental paradigms of ‘classical conditioning’ (Pavlov, 1927; Lieberman, 1993) and ‘instrumental conditioning’ (Thorndike, 1911; Skinner, 1938; Balleine et al., 2003; Domjan, 2006).
Classical conditioning (also called ‘Pavlovian conditioning’) refers to an experimental paradigm in which a certain basic behaviour such as salivation or approaching (the ‘unconditioned response’ – UR), which is linked to a biologically salient stimulus such as food ingestion (the ‘unconditioned stimulus’ – US), becomes associated to a neutral stimulus like the sound of a bell (the ‘conditioned stimulus’ – CS), after the neutral stimulus is repeatedly presented before the appearance of the salient stimulus. Such acquired associations are referred to as ‘CS-US’ or ‘CS-UR’ associations (Pavlov, 1927; Lieberman, 1993).
Instrumental conditioning (also called ‘operant conditioning’) refers to an experimental paradigm in which an animal, given a certain stimulus/context such as a lever in a cage (the ‘stimulus’ – S), learns to produce a particular action such as pressing the lever (the ‘response’ – R), which produces a certain outcome such as the opening of the cage (the ‘action outcome’ – O), if this outcome is consistently accompanied by a reward such as the access to food.
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- Modelling Perception with Artificial Neural Networks , pp. 93 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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