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A Dynamic Route Finder for the Cognitive Map

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Reid, AK; Staddon, JER
Published in: Psychological Review
January 1, 1998

Cognitive behaviorist E. C. Tolman (1932) proposed many years ago that rats and men navigate with the aid of cognitive maps, but his theory was incomplete. Critic E. R. Guthrie (1935) pointed out that Tolman's maps lack a rule for action, a route finder. We show that a dynamic model for stimulus generalization based on an elementary diffusion process can reproduce the qualitative properties of spatial orientation in animals: area-restricted search in the open field, finding shortcuts, barrier learning (the Umweg problem), spatial "insight" in mazes, and radial maze behavior. The model provides a behavioristic reader for Tolman's cognitive map.

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Psychological Review

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0033-295X

Publication Date

January 1, 1998

Volume

105

Issue

3

Start / End Page

585 / 601

Related Subject Headings

  • Experimental Psychology
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Reid, A. K., & Staddon, J. E. R. (1998). A Dynamic Route Finder for the Cognitive Map. Psychological Review, 105(3), 585–601. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.105.3.585
Reid, A. K., and J. E. R. Staddon. “A Dynamic Route Finder for the Cognitive Map.” Psychological Review 105, no. 3 (January 1, 1998): 585–601. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.105.3.585.
Reid AK, Staddon JER. A Dynamic Route Finder for the Cognitive Map. Psychological Review. 1998 Jan 1;105(3):585–601.
Reid, A. K., and J. E. R. Staddon. “A Dynamic Route Finder for the Cognitive Map.” Psychological Review, vol. 105, no. 3, Jan. 1998, pp. 585–601. Scopus, doi:10.1037/0033-295X.105.3.585.
Reid AK, Staddon JER. A Dynamic Route Finder for the Cognitive Map. Psychological Review. 1998 Jan 1;105(3):585–601.

Published In

Psychological Review

DOI

ISSN

0033-295X

Publication Date

January 1, 1998

Volume

105

Issue

3

Start / End Page

585 / 601

Related Subject Headings

  • Experimental Psychology
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology