Mazes: their use in delayed conditional discriminations and place discriminations

Olton, David S.; Markowska, Alicja L.

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“…One of my contributions in this area was the use of the radial arm maze to assess working memory (Olton, 1987). The popularity of maze procedures to assess memory continues to illustrate the usefulness of these techniques (Olton, 1979; Olton & Markowska, in press).…”

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“…These experimental approaches were productive and had a significant advantage, because any thoughtful individual who observed the behavior of the rats could quickly see many interesting psychological questions to be pursued. As might be expected, many important issues in psychology were first addressed experimentally by testing rats in mazes, and this experimental strategy still has great merit today (Gallistel, 1989; Olton, 1979; Olton & Markowska, in press).…”

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Tolman's cognitive analyses: Predecessors of current approaches in psychology.

Olton¹

1992

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Hindsight is always helpful. I hope that I have provided some appreciation of why the experiment by Tolman et al. (1946) is a classic and deserves to be included in this series. Evaluating the extent to which this particular experiment actually influenced the development of all of the endeavors described above is difficult, and I leave it to those individuals who have an interest in the history of science to draw the appropriate conclusions. Even without direct causality, the continued relevance of this experiment is striking. We might all wish that we have sufficient foresight to investigate significant problems in such a way that our own contributions are still considered important almost 50 years after we make them.

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