The Biology of Learning

General Issues in the Biology of Learning.- Animal Learning, Ethology, and Biological Constraints.- Ethology and the Natural History of Learning.- Genes, Evolution, and Learning.- The Study of Animal Learning in the Tradition of Pavlov and Thorndike.- Learning by Selection.- Biology of Invertebrate Learning.- Learning in Invertebrates.- Natural History of Honey Bee Learning.- Behavior Theory and Invertebrate Learning.- Work in Invertebrates on the Mechanisms Underlying Learning.- Biology of Invertebrate Learning: Group Report.- Biology of Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates.- The Natural History of Bird Learning.- Song Learning: Innate Species Differences in the Learning Process.- A Logical Basis for Single-neuron Study of Learning in Complex Neural Systems.- The Neural Basis of Imprinting.- Signals, Conditioned Directed Movements, and Species-typical Response Predispositions in Nonmammalian Vertebrates.- Cause and Function of Animal Learning Processes.- Complex General Process Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates.- Biology of Learning in Nonmammalian Vertebrates: Group Report.- Biology of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals.- Natural History and Evolution of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals.- Species-typical Response Predispositions.- Associative Predispositions.- Learning to See: Mechanisms in Experience-dependent Development.- Physiological and Anatomical Mechanisms: Neural Bases of Learning.- Spatial Cognition and Memory in Captive Chimpanzees.- Biology of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals: Group Report.- Biology of Learning in Humans.- Biological Predispositions to Learn Language.- On Perceptual Predispositions for Human Speech and Monkey Vocalizations.- Human Learning and Memory.- Models of Language Acquisition.- Brain Mechanisms of Language.- The Neuropsychology of Memory.- Biology of Learning in Humans: Group Report.- List of Participants with Fields of Research.- Author Index.