期刊名称：International Journal of Comparative Psychology
印刷版ISSN：0889-3667
出版年度：2011
卷号：24
期号：4
页码：412-436
出版社：University of California Press
摘要：The interface of learning and cognition applied to the study of animal behavior represents a target for significant progress if conceptual barriers can be reduced.Is animal behavior exclusively a product of learning or cognition, or are both implicated? Are special (i.e., new) methods required to study cognition or will the enterprise be accomplished by using well-established methods from learning? What types of hypotheses need to be tested to dissociate cognition from learning, and may these hypotheses be profitably tested? This article addresses the above questions by focusing on conceptual, methodological, and hypothesis-testing perspectives for navigating the interface between learning and cognition.Examples from contemporary research are used to develop some suggestions for best practices.The development of a rodent model of episodic memory is used as a case study tofeature the validation of an animal model of cognition.
关键词：International Journal of Comparative Psychology; Behavior; Behaviour; Communication; Vocalization; Comparative Psychology; Behavioral Taxonomy; Cognition; Cognitive Processes; Intelligence; Learning; Human Language; Animal Model
