LEARNING

Habituation and simple conditioning

• Conditioned reflexes in cockroaches (planned)
• Habituation
• Conditioning
• Conditioned feeding responses in honey bees

Short and longterm storage of information

• Memory
• where is memory located in the brain?
• consolidation, memory strength, and forgetting
• Food locations (planned)
• Search images (planned)
• Cache retrieval
• Learned cache retrieval
• Reforaging
• Search by rule
• Learning navigational routes and home range features (planned)

Animal Intelligence

• Counting I deal with counting as a separate topic because the ability to count--that is to enumerate environmental features such as the number of prey items in a patch--is fundamental to much of what animals do. Counting ability is difficult to assess, as animals may substitute measures of time and effort for actual counts.
• Observational learning
• Problem solving
• Prediction
• Memory capacity
• Generalization (planned)