David Shanks is Professor of Psychology at University College London. His research interests have covered many aspects of cognitive psychology, but particularly human learning and memory. He has published widely in this field and is the author of The Psychology of Associative Learning (1995) and (with Ben Newell and David Lagnado) Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making (2007).

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• Volume 1Pavlovian Conditioning and its Proper Control Procedures A Theory of Pavlovian Conditioning: Variations in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement - Robert A. RescorlaA Theory of Attention: Variations in the associability of stimuli with reinforcement - Robert A. Rescorla and Allan R. Wagner A Model for Pavlovian Conditioning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli - N.J. Mackintosh A Model for Stimulus Generalization in Pavlovian Conditioning - John M. Pearce and Geoffry HallDistributed Memory and the Representation of General and Specific Information - John M. Pearce Why there are Complementary Learning Systems in the Hippocampus and Neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory - James L. McClelland and David E. RumelhartA Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward - James L. McClelland, Bruce L. McNaughton and Randall C. O′ReillyContext, Time, and Memory Retrieval in the Interference Paradigms of Pavlovian Learning - Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan and P. Read MontagueRelation of Cue to Consequence in Avoidance Learning - Mark E. BoutonSpecific Hungers and Poison Avoidance as Adaptive Specializations of Learning - John Garcia and Robert A. KoellingAuto-Shaping of the Pigeon′s Key Peck - Paul Rozin and James W. KalatOn the Law of Effect - Paul L. Brown and Herbert M. JenkinsSelection by Consequences - R.J. HerrnsteinVOLUME 2 - B.F. SkinnerThere is no Convincing Evidence for Operant or Classical Conditioning in Adult HumansImplicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge - William F. BrewerA Case of Syntactical Learning and Judgment: How conscious and how abstract? - Arthur S. ReberPreserved Learning and Retention of Pattern-Analyzing Skill in Amnesia: Dissociation of knowing how and knowing that - Don E. Dulany, Richard A. Carlson and Gerald I. DeweyDeciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy - Neal J. Cohen and Larry R. SquireAcquisition of Cognitive Skill - Antoine Bechara, Hanna Damasio, Daniel Tranel, and Antonio R. DamasioContext Theory of Classification Learning - John R. AndersonRule-plus-exception Model of Classification Learning - Douglas L. Medin and Marguerite M. SchafferFrom Conditioning to Category Learning: An adaptive network model - Robert M. Nosofsky, Thomas J. Palmeri and Stephen C. McKinleyAutomatic and Effortful Processes in Memory - Mark A. Gluck and Gordon H. BowerToward an Instance Theory of Automatization - Lynn Hasher and Rose T. ZacksVOLUME 3 - Gordon D. LoganThe Neural Basis of Cognitive Development: A constructivist manifestoPsychobiology of Plasticity: Effects of training and experience on brain and behaviour - Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. SejnowskiThe Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance - Mark R. Rosenzweig and Edward L. BennettThree Aspects of Cognitive Development - K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-RömerOn Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs - Robert S. SieglerRules of Language - D.E. Rumelhart and J.L. McClellandA Distributed, Developmental Model of Word Recognition and Naming - Steven PinkerFinding Structure in Time - Mark S. Seidenberg and James L. McClellandStatistical Learning by 8-month-old Infants - Jeffrey L. ElmanChildren′s Sensitivity to Constraints on Word Meaning: Taxonomic versus thematic relations - Jenny R. Saffran, Richard N. Aslin and Elissa L. NewportOrigins of Knowledge - Ellen M. Markman and Jean E. HutchinsonMaturational Constraints on Language-learning - Elizabeth S. Spelke, Karen Breinlinger, Janet Macomber and Kristen JacobsonCategories and Induction in Young Children - Elissa L. NewportVOLUME 4 - Susan A. Gelman and Ellen M. MarkmanLearned Helplessness: Theory and evidenceFears, Phobias, and Preparedness: Toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning - Steven F. Maier and Martin E.P. SeligmanA Modern Learning Theory Perspective on the Etiology of Panic Disorder - Arne Öhman and Susan MinekaLearned Industriousness - Mark E. Bouton, Susan Mineka and David H. BarlowCommitment, Choice and Self-control - Robert EisenbergerThe Neural Basis of Drug Craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction - Howard Rachlin and Leonard GreenDiscrimination Learning with and without "Errors" - Terry E. Robinson and Kent C. BerridgePredicting how People Play Games: Reinforcement learning in experimental games with unique, mixed strategy equilibria - H.S. TerraceHypothesis Testing in Rule Discovery: Strategy, structure, and content - Ido Erev and Alvin E. RothNew Conceptualizations of Practice: Common principles in three paradigms suggest new concepts for training - Joshua Klayman and Young-Won Ha