Sir Frederic Bartlett Lectureship

Frederic Charles Bartlett, 1886-1969.

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The 36th Sir Frederick Bartlett lecture: an associative analysis of spatial learning.

The ability of animals to find important goals in their environment has been said to require a form of learning that is qualitatively different from that normally studied in the conditioning laboratory. Such spatial learning has been said to depend upon the construction of a global representation of the environment, and the acquisition of knowledge about the position of goals with reference to ...

Yale Medical Student Council Lectureship

The paper by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, which follows directly, is one of a series of lectures sponsored by the Medical Student Council. The Lectureship, instituted early in 1974, was designed to bring outstanding teachers of medicine and leaders in public health to the Yale University School of Medicine. This program was organized entirely by medical students on behalf of the student body. The...

7 Discussion Frederic

Taylor's paper is a useful and balanced discussion of the implications of forward-looking behavior for how monetary policy should be conducted. However, he might leave the reader with a misleading impression that the nonmarket clearing, rational expectations approach that he advocates is an outlying position that is not widely accepted. To the contrary, a high, and I think growing, percentage o...

Frederic Lawrence Holmes 1932–2003