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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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