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Hawkins, Robert D.; Kandel, Eric R. – Learning & Memory, 2019
One of the major questions in psychology is whether associative and nonassociative learning are fundamentally different or whether they involve similar processes and mechanisms. We have addressed this question by comparing mechanisms of a nonassociative form of learning, sensitization, and an associative form of learning, classical conditioning of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classical Conditioning, Brain, Animals
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Pirogovsky, Eva; Murphy, Claire; Gilbert, Paul E. – Developmental Science, 2009
Associative learning is critical to normal cognitive development in children. However, young adults typically outperform children on paired-associate tasks involving visual, verbal and spatial location stimuli. The present experiment investigated cross-modal odour-place associative memory in children (7-10 years) and young adults (18-24 years).…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development