Extrapolation Ability in Animals and Its Possible Links to Exploration, Anxiety, and Novelty Seeking

Neurofisiologia da predição baseada em memórias sobre regularidades passadas

“…Predicting a given item in the repetitive sequence of stimuli is known as anticipation (Haggbloom & Brooks, 1985;Fountain, 1990). Furthermore, these animals are able to extend the rules of a learned sequence and predict events never experienced beforeas long as they are congruent with the original sequencea process called extrapolation (Krushinsky, 1990;Poletaeva, Popova & Romanova, 1993;Poletaeva & Zorina, 2015). Extrapolating demands complex cognitive performance, as the organism uses past experiences to predict the possible consequences of novel events, never experienced before, constituting an adaptive advantage (Guigon, 2004).…”