Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...
A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal ...
Students will help to run operant conditioning experiments on mice to measure complex sound perception. They may also be involved in recording vocalizations from mice and analyzing those vocalizations ...
Our past experience is one of the primary sources of information when faced with a choice. We ask ourselves: "what will happen if I do this?"Accurately predicting the consequences of our actions is ...
Watch how operant conditioning turns one curious cat into a musical prodigy. Science meets silliness. A Strange Gas-Pumping Defect Is Making $100,000 Corvettes Go Up in Flames Charlie Sheen was once a ...
Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...