Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Categorization and concept learning encompass some of the most important aspects of
behavior, but historically they have not been central topics in the experimental analysis of …

To what extent do we learn from the positive versus negative outcomes of our decisions?
The neuromodulator dopamine plays a key role in these reinforcement learning processes …

The past 50 years have seen an accumulation of evidence suggesting that associative
learning depends on high-level cognitive processes that give rise to propositional …

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

Two experiments tested predictions from a theory in which processing load depends on
relational complexity (RC), the number of variables related in a single decision. Tasks from …

The theory of Pavlovian conditioning presented by Robert Rescorla and Allan Wagner in
1972 (the Rescorla-Wagner model) has been enormously important in animal learning …

Transitive inference has long been considered one of the hallmarks of human deductive
reasoning. Recent reports of transitive-like behaviors in non-human animals have prompted …

Humans and animals routinely infer relations between different items or events and
generalize these relations to novel combinations of items. This allows them to respond …

The requirements of living in social groups, and forming and maintaining social relationships
are hypothesized to be one of the major drivers behind the evolution of cognitive abilities …