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A Year Before His Death, B.f. Skinner Wrote That There Are Two Unavoidable Gaps In Any Behavioral Account: One Between The Stimulating Action Of The Environment And The Response Of The Organism And One Between Consequences And The Resulting Change In Behavior. Only Brain Science Can Fill Those Gaps. In Doing So, It Completes The Account; It Does Not Give A Different Account Of The Same Thing. This Declaration Ended The Epoch Of Radical Behaviorism To The Extent That It Was Based On The Doctrine Of The Empty Organism, The Doctrine That A Behavioral Science Must Be Constructed Purely On Cover; Learning As Self-organization; Copyright; Table Of Contents; Foreword: Learning As Self-organization; Keynote; Innate Bases Of Learning; The Behavioral Level: Learning; Respondents, Operants, And Emergents: Toward An Integrated Perspective On Behavior; Analysis Of Behavioral Selection By Consequences And Its Potential Contributions To Understanding Brain-behavior Relations; Mechanics Of The Animate; The Response Dimension; Nonlinear Phenomena In Learning Processes; The Attractor Of The Intentional Learning System; The Network Level: Self-organization The Three Languages Of The Brain: Quantum, Reorganizational, And Associativeautomatic Formation Of Wavelet- And Gabor-type Filters In An Adaptive-subspace Som; Democratic Reinforcement: Learning Via Self-organization; Biological Plausibility Of Synaptic Associative Memory Models; Learning In The Brain: An Engineering Interpretation; The Neural Systems Level: Process; Morphogenesis And Mental Process; Topographically Different Regional Networks Impose Structural Limitations On Both Sexes In Early Postnatal Development Brain Regions Associated With Retrieval Of Structurally Coherent Visual Informationconscious Recollection And The Human Hippocampal Formation: Evidence From Positron Emission Tomography; An Exploration Of The Neural Bases Of Memory Representations Of Reward And Context; Emotion And The Self-organization Of Semantic Memo
This volume investigates the fundamental question of how biological learning processes emerge from the self-organizing properties of the brain, bridging the gap between behavioral observation and neural mechanism. Editors Joseph S. King and Karl H. Pribram compile contributions from leading researchers to challenge the limitations of radical behaviorism. By integrating behavioral analysis with neurobiological data, the text argues that learning is not merely a response to environmental stimuli but a complex, self-organizing phenomenon rooted in brain architecture.
What You Will Find
Experts recognize this collection as a significant interdisciplinary bridge between behavioral psychology and neurobiology. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which requires a strong background in cognitive science to fully synthesize the technical arguments presented.
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Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10:
0203763742
ISBN-13:
9780203763742