Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms

The book Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms explores how evolution has influenced learning and memory processes in animals, including associative learning, social learning, and spatial, working, and episodic memory systems. Contributors discuss how evolutionary pressures have shaped the behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory and draw connections between learning and memory and selective factors that have shaped their evolution.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 19 May 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms delves into extensive laboratory and field research exploring the profound influence of evolution on various aspects of learning and memory, including associative learning, social learning, spatial working, and episodic memory systems. This comprehensive volume showcases the contributions of both emerging early-career scientists and renowned experts in the field. The study encompasses a wide range of animal species, encompassing invertebrates such as insects, worms, sea hares, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, bears, and human and nonhuman primates. Contributors examine how evolutionary pressures have shaped the behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory. They also explore the interconnectedness between learning and memory and the specific selective factors that have driven their evolution. The Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms serves as an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars engaged in experimental and comparative psychology, comparative cognition, brain–behavior evolution, and animal behavior.

ISBN-13: 9781108738316