Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons.

ABSTRACT: A wealth of evidence indicates that humans can engage two types of mechanisms to solve category-learning tasks: declarative mechanisms, which involve forming and testing verbalizable decision rules, and associative mechanisms, which involve gradually linking stimuli to appropriate behavioral responses.^1,2,3 In contrast to declarative mechanisms, associative mechanisms have received surprisingly little attention in the broader category-learning literature. Although various forms of associatively driven artificial intelligence (AI) have matched-and even surpassed-humans' performance on several challenging problems,^3,4,5,6 associative learning is routinely dismis

SUBMITTER: Wasserman EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10050111 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature