Mazes, maps, and memory.

By D. Olton. 1979

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Off-Policy Actor-Critic with Shared Experience Replay (2019, background): “We note that those solutions can only partially mitigate the fundamental issue and that counter examples such as arbitrarily long T-Mazes (Tolman, 1948; Olton, 1979) can be constructed easily.”
Control of Memory, Active Perception, and Action in Minecraft (2016, methodology): “Our I-Maze task was inspired by T-Mazes which have been used in animal cognition experiments (Olton, 1979).”
Causal Analysis of Agent Behavior for AI Safety (2021, background): “The agent needs to navigate a T-maze in order to collect a pill (which provides a reward) at the end of one of the two corridors (Olton, 1979).”
The influence of habitat stability on landmark use during spatial learning in the three-spined stickleback (2003, methodology): “Pond and river fish were trained to learn a simple orientation task whereby they had to locate a goal arm in a T-maze, a procedure that has often been used to analyse learning and memory ( Olton 1979; Rodriguez et al. 1994).”
Is working memory still working? (2001, methodology): “The term has subsequently been used in computational modeling approaches (Newell & Simon, 1972) and in animal learning studies, in which the participant animals are required to hold information across a number of trials within the same day (Olton, 1979).”
Transitive inference in rats (Rattus norvegicus). (1992, background): “Although comparable data are not available for the rat, the importance of spatial organization for this species cannot be questioned (Munn, 1950; Olton, 1979).”
Overcoming deception in evolution of cognitive behaviors (2014, methodology): “The Standard T-Maze map (figure 2a) is similar to the classic T-Maze imported from experiments in animal cognition [14], and has been previously explored in previous ER studies [13, 17, 21].”