Hippocampus and the Classically Conditioned Nictitating Membrane Response: A Real-Time Attentional-Associative Model

摘要

The present study introduces an attentional-associative model that incorporates (1) a mechanism capable of establishing associations between conditioned stimuli (CSs) and unconditioned stimuli (USs) and between CSs; (2) a mechanism that, by combining CS-CS and CS-US associations, is capable of building a computational cognitive map ; (3) a real-time version of Pearce and Hall's (1980) attentional rule; (4) performance rules that convert learning variables into a topography of the rabbits nictitating membrane (NM) response; and (5) rules that convert learning variables into neuronal firing. Reprints. (SDW)