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High-throughput automated methods for classical and operant conditioning of Drosophila larvae [PDF]

open access: yeseLife, 2022
Learning which stimuli (classical conditioning) or which actions (operant conditioning) predict rewards or punishments can improve chances of survival.
Elise C Croteau-Chonka   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Pain rewarded: hyperalgesic and allodynic effect of operant conditioning in healthy humans-protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesSyst Rev, 2018
Background: "pain rewarded" is a hypothesis wherein acute pain sufferers are exposed to reinforcers and punishers from their environment that shape their behaviour, i.e. pain responses.
Adamczyk WM   +3 more
europepmc   +11 more sources

Direct Pathway Neurons in the Mouse Ventral Striatum Are Active During Goal-Directed Action but Not Reward Consumption During Operant Conditioning [PDF]

open access: yesBiomedicines
Background/Objectives: Learning is classically modeled to consist of an acquisition period followed by a mastery period when the skill no longer requires conscious control and becomes automatic.
Stefano Cataldi   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Sex differences in the social motivation of rats: Insights from social operant conditioning, behavioural economics, and video tracking [PDF]

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences
Background Social behaviour plays a key role in mental health and wellbeing, and developing greater understanding of mechanisms underlying social interaction—particularly social motivation—holds substantial transdiagnostic impact.
Joel S Raymond   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

How Much of Language Acquisition Does Operant Conditioning Explain? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Since the 1950s, when Chomsky argued that Skinner’s arguments could not explain syntactic acquisition, psychologists have generally avoided explicitly invoking operant or instrumental conditioning as a learning mechanism for language among human children.
Christopher B. Sturdy, Elena Nicoladis
doaj   +2 more sources

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