About Skinner and time: Behavior-analytic contributions to research on animal timing

Article Abstract:

A study on the contribution of the work of B.F. Skinner, and his legacy of behavior-analytic methods and approaches, to the study of animal timing is illustrated. The first contribution is the development of the operant method and its use to study a range of issues in animal timing and second is his attempt to account for temporally regulated behavior in animals within a theoretical framework that avoids explanation in terms of events inside the organism.

User Contributions:

Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:

Comment:  (50-4000 characters)

Name:

E-mail:

Security Code:

The challenge of characterizing operating in the mechanisms underlying behavior

Article Abstract:

The challenge of characterizing the operations within the mechanisms that underlie psychological behavior is focused. The challenge in characterizing such operations is illustrated by an example from the history of physiological chemistry in which some investigators tried to characterize the internal operations in the same terms as overall physiological system while others appealed to elemental chemistry.

User Contributions:

Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:

Comment:  (50-4000 characters)

Name:

E-mail:

Security Code:

Neuronal substrates of relapse to cocaine-seeking behavior: Role of prefrontal cortex

Article Abstract:

Animal models of relapse and the mechanisms underlying the involvement of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in cocaine-seeking behavior are reviewed. The results suggest a role for PFC in processing information related to cocaine seeking that can help dissect the functions of PFC and other components of the neural circuitry underlying relapse.

User Contributions:

Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:

Comment:  (50-4000 characters)

Name:

E-mail:

Security Code: