Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms

Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms is an exploration of laboratory and field research on the many ways that evolution has influenced learning and memory processes such as associative learning social learning and spatial working and episodic memory systems. This volume features research by both outstanding early-career scientists as well as familiar luminaries in the field. Learning and memory in a broad range of animals are explored including numerous species of invertebrates (insects worms sea hares) as well as fish amphibians birds rodents bears and human and nonhuman primates. Contributors discuss how the behavioral cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory have been influenced by evolutionary pressures. They also draw connections between learning and memory and the specific selective factors that shaped their evolution. Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms should be a valuable resource for those working in the areas of experimental and comparative psychology comparative cognition brainbehavior evolution and animal behavior.