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Abstract:
The Temporal Coding Hypothesis of Miller and colleagues [7]
suggests that animals integrate related temporal patterns of
stimuli into single memory representations. We formalize this
concept using quasi-Bayes estimation to update the parameters of
a constrained hidden Markov model. This approach allows us to
account for some surprising temporal effects in the second order
conditioning experiments of Miller et al. [1, 2, 3], which other
models are unable to explain.
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for similar associative structure in forward and simultaneous
conditioning.
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conditioned inhibition acquired through backward conditioning.
Learning and Motivation
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