What is a "hybrid" model?

[Raju Bapi]

On Fri, 29 Mar 1996 Jonathan_Stein at com.comverse.hub1 wrote:

>  Next, it has been demonstrated in psychophysical experiments that there
>  are two types of learning. The first type is gradual, with slowly 
>  improving performance, while in primates there is also "sudden" learning, 
>  where the subject (EUREKA!) discovers a symbolic representation
>  simplifying the task. Thus not only is the basic hardware different for
>  the two processes, different learning algorithms are used as well.


Could you (or any one on the list) please give references to this 
"sudden" or "Eureka"  type of learning in animals ?


Thanks

Raju Bapi
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Neurodynamics Research Group
School of Computing
University of Plymouth
Plymouth PL4 8AA
United Kingdom

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