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Peer reviewedReid, Alliston K.; Staddon, J. E. R. – Psychological Review, 1998
This discussion shows that a dynamic model for stimulus generalization based on an elementary diffusion process can reproduce the qualitative properties of spatial orientation in animals, including behavior in mazes. The model provides a behavioristic "reader" for the cognitive maps proposed by E. Tolman (1932). (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Perception, Spatial Ability
