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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Animal Behavior

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  • Spatial learning and memory are crucial for goal-directed navigation.
  • Early theories proposed trial-and-error (response learning) or cognitive maps for spatial navigation.
  • Tolman's cognitive map theory suggests a mental representation of the environment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To revisit empirical evidence of spatial inference in animals.
  • To discuss associative frameworks for spatial inference, contrasting with cognitive map theories.
  • To explore how higher-order conditioning accounts for inferential navigation.

Main Methods:

  • Review of empirical evidence on spatial inference in animals.
  • Analysis of higher-order conditioning models for navigation.
  • Examination of path integration and vector integration within associative frameworks.

Main Results:

  • Higher-order conditioning can account for inferential goal-directed navigation.
  • Integration of path integration vectors via higher-order conditioning explains novel route-taking.
  • Associative frameworks offer an alternative to traditional cognitive map theories.

Conclusions:

  • Spatial inference and novel route-taking can be explained by associative learning mechanisms.
  • Higher-order conditioning provides a viable framework for understanding complex spatial navigation.
  • This challenges the necessity of cognitive maps for all forms of spatial inference.