Pablo Rubio Rodríguez

Autonomous University of Madrid | UAM · Basic Psychology

A first approximation to the study of learning processes in bivalves is presented. A habituation procedure was developed using the slimy clam Ruditapes decussatus. The percentage of siphon withdrawal when they were exposed to a white light was measured. In Experiment 1, a habituation-discrimination procedure was used to study the stimulus intensity...

The concept of interference has been frequently employed to describe or illustrate some phenomena found in psychology. In the field of memory, interference is one of the main explanations of forgetting or recall inaccessibility. In fact, over the last decades there have been proposed neural mechanisms as the biological basis of interference. The ai...

Introducción La publicación de la Psicología para neurólogos de Freud (en adelante φψω) inició una serie de debates en torno a cómo relacionaba el padre del psicoanálisis cuerpo y alma. Algunos estudiosos de Freud encontraron muchas similitudes entre las ideas establecidas en φψω y las obras psicoanalíticas posteriores, por lo que cuestionaron que...

Pavlovian conditioning has been proven to be useful for the study of associative learning and animal cognition. This procedure can be used to observe certain memory phenomena. The appetitive conditioning of several neutral stimuli can result in higher response rates, and therefore a better memory, for the first and last stimuli of the series. This...