1st Edition

Models of Action Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior

Edited By Clive D.L. Wynne, John E.R. Staddon Copyright 1998
336 Pages
by Psychology Press

336 Pages
by Psychology Press

336 Pages
by Psychology Press

This volume presents an international group of researchers who model animal and human behavior--both simple and complex. The models presented focus on such subjects as the pattern of eating in meals and bouts, the energizing and shaping impact of reinforcers on behavior, transitive inferential reasoning, responding to a compound stimulus, avoidance and escape learning, recognition memory, category... Read more
Contents: B. Goertzel, Learning the Language of Mind: Symbolic Dynamics for Modeling Adaptive Behavior. S. Grossberg, Neural Substrates of Adaptively Timed Reinforcement, Recognition, and Motor Learning. E.J. Kehoe, Can the Whole Be Something Other Than the Sum of Its Parts? P.R. Killeen, The First Principle of Reinforcement. J.R. Koza, Using Biology to Solve a Problem in Automated Machine Learning. N.A. Schmajuk, D.W. Urry, B.S. Zanutto, The Frightening Complexity of Avoidance: A Neural Network Approach. J.E.R. Staddon, B.S. Zanutto, In Praise of Parsimony. C.D.L. Wynne, A Minimal Model of Transitive Inference.

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Clive D.L. Wynne, John E.R. Staddon