"You Say Praise, I Say Encouragement" - Negotiating Positive Behavior Support in a Constructivist Preschool [PDF]
A participatory action research study conducted at the Arlitt Child Development Center, a laboratory preschool at the University of Cincinnati, used naturalistic inquiry to create a solution for addressing challenging behaviors within an early childhood ...
Victoria Carr, Mary Boat
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution [PDF]
Jerry Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have happened") and because (2) only minds can select.
Harnad, Stevan
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Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Pediatric Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorders [PDF]
Habits, such as hair pulling and thumb sucking, have recently been grouped into a category of clinical conditions called body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (BFRBDs).
Houghton, David C., Woods, Douglas W.
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Human in the loop reinforcement learning framework for adaptive phishing detection
Phishing attacks remain a persistent threat in cybersecurity, exploiting human psychology to extract confidential information. Conventional machine learning and Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches often rely on rigid binary reward structures that ...
Sohail Khan
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Goal-directed, habitual and Pavlovian prosocial behavior
Although prosocial behaviors have been widely studied across disciplines, the mechanisms underlying them are not fully understood. Evidence from psychology, biology and economics suggests that prosocial behaviors can be driven by a variety of seemingly ...
Filip eGęsiarz, Molly J. Crockett
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Auditory–Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
In this work, we explore auditory–tactile congruence for synthesizing adaptive vocal pain expressions in robopatients. Using a robopatient platform that integrates vocal pain sounds with palpation forces, we conducted 7680 trials across 20 participants.
Saitarun Nadipineni +4 more
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Comparing Fixed-amount and Progressive-amount DRO Schedules for Tic Suppression in Youth with Chronic Tic Disorders [PDF]
Chronic tic disorders (CTDs) involve motor and/or vocal tics that often cause substantial distress and impairment. Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) schedules of reinforcement produce robust, but incomplete, reductions in tic frequency ...
Capriotti, Matthew R. +4 more
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A systematic review of pliance, tracking, and augmenting [PDF]
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Barnes-Holmes, Patrick Michael Dermot +5 more
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Gaming
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force in the gaming industry, enhancing gameplay mechanics while expanding applications in education, healthcare, and human–computer interaction.
Antonio del Bosque +3 more
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