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| Operant control slows progression of ALS |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as 'Lou Gerhig's disease') is a debilitating and eventually fatal disease in which patients suffer from progressive paralysis. However, they are only losing their movements,...[more] |
| operant ALS control locked-in |
| Posted on Thursday 09 November 2006 - 09:06:44 |
| operant pain control |
| Operant conditioning is the means by which we learn to control our environment. It works by generating variable behavior ("trying out") and then looking, which of the variables in the environment ("stimuli") vary in the ...[more] |
| operant control pain analgesic |
| Posted on Friday 03 November 2006 - 03:27:22 |
| World-learning and self-learning: two biological processes underlying operant conditioning |
| Our article entitled "The biology of psychology: Simple conditioning?" has just appeared in Communicative & Integrative Biology. It is an open access article, so it's free. My postdoc Julien Colomb and I wrote it aft...[more] |
| operant drosophila world-learning self-learning habit formation |
| Posted on Wednesday 16 December 2009 - 11:44:25 |
| Operant conditioning of a reflex? |
| Ever since I got into operant conditioning now over a good dozen years ago, I was aware that there was a researcher in New York studying operant learning in rats in a very unusual experimental setup. His lab triggers the...[more] |
| SfN2008 operant H-reflex wolpaw |
| Posted on Sunday 16 November 2008 - 10:25:59 |
| Flies are creatures of habit, too |
| My latest paper has appeared a few days ago at Current Biology, with the title "Mushroom-bodies regulate habit formation in Drosophila". In it I describe experiments which I interpret as showing habit formation in fruit ...[more] |
| Drosophila operant habit habit formation |
| Posted on Wednesday 08 July 2009 - 14:59:05 |
| is religiosity an operant? |
| Reading the article "Why do we believe in god?" in the British newspaper "Guardian" it occurred to me that religiosity may best be explained by operant behavior. Actually, as a by-product of selection for operant behavio...[more] |
| evolution of religion operant |
| Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2005 - 03:31:36 |
| more on religion |
| In my recent post "Is religiosity an operant?", I laid out some quick thoughts on the psychological foundations for being religious. In an essay for the National Review Online, John Derbyshire puts the topic into a conte...[more] |
| evolution of religion operant |
| Posted on Thursday 15 December 2005 - 03:36:24 |
| Cognitive Daily: Operant conditioning at the NC Zoo |
| Dave Munger over at Cognitive Daily has a great post on how zoos use operant conditioning for the welfare of their animals. They use operant conditioning on basically all mammals, maybe even most vertebrates there, for e...[more] |
| operant conditioning operant learning zoo |
| Posted on Tuesday 23 September 2008 - 06:48:16 |
| Aplysia operant conditioning @ Scholarpedia |
| Recycling a review article from 2003 as base, I've started to write a Scholarpedia article on Aplysia operant conditoning. While the content concerning operant reward learning is basically complete, this is currently sti...[more] |
| Aplysia feeding operant Scholarpedia neuroscience learning memory |
| Posted on Thursday 12 July 2007 - 02:43:48 |
| Why religiosity evolved |
| A recent podcast by the German radio station Deutschlandfunk on the new science of geomythology reminded me of how important and adaptive religion must have been for early humans (related article in The Guardian). Geomyt...[more] |
| evolution of religion geomythology operant |
| Posted on Friday 04 January 2008 - 03:48:16 |
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