Hippocampal-dependent tasks often involve specific associations among stimuli (including egocentric information), and such tasks are therefore prone to interference from irrelevant task strategies before a correct strategy is found. Using an object-place paired-associate task, we investigated changes in neural firing patterns in the hippocampus in…

Discusses Piaget's and Skinner's approaches to instruction and indicates the possibility of a muddled education system through the superimposition of the new theories on the older ones. (CC)