| Latent Inhibition and Conditioned Attention Theory Contributor(s): Lubow, R. E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 052110257X ISBN-13: 9780521102575 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Medical | Neuroscience - Science | Life Sciences - Neuroscience |
| Dewey: 153.153 |
| Series: Problems in the Behavioural Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: R.E. Lubow offers a complete survey of the basic data that comprise the latent inhibition effect, and a review of theories that attempt to explain it. He then elaborates on his own Conditioned Attention Theory and derives applications for learned helplessness and schizophrenia. Latent inhibition is an exquisitely simple, robust, and pervasive behavioral phenomenon--the reduced ability of an organism to learn new associations to previously inconsequential stimuli. It has been demonstrated in a variety of animals, including humans, across many different learning tasks. The ease of demonstrating the latent inhibition effect, on the one hand, is matched by the difficulty of incorporating it into contemporary conditioning and learning theories, on the other hand. A wide range of experimental psychologists and neuroscientists will find this a stimulating and useful book for themselves and their students. |