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| Why people believe weird things? Lack of control. |
 I've been blogging on the evolution of religion before. Initially, I just thought operant behavior would seem like a good explanation for religion: the argument tied together the observation that (1) religious people are...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 20 October 2008 - 18:50:10 |
| Aplysia operant conditioning @ Scholarpedia |
| Recycling a review article from 2003 as base, I've started to write a Scholarpedia article on Aplysia operant conditoning. While the content concerning operant reward learning is basically complete, this is currently sti...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 12 July 2007 - 08:43:48 |
| Why religiosity evolved |
| A recent podcast by the German radio station Deutschlandfunk on the new science of geomythology reminded me of how important and adaptive religion must have been for early humans (related article in The Guardian). Geomyt...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 04 January 2008 - 09:48:16 |
| Operant conditioning on the rise |
| A quick literature search on PubMed revealed that the publication rate in the field of operant (instrumental) conditioning is currently at a 25-year high. This result confirms my subjective impression that more and more ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 02 June 2005 - 17:56:28 |
| Intrinsic plasticity: the 'other' learning mechanism |
| A quote from Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel in the December 11 issue of Science reminded me of a short article by David Glanzman covering a remarkable paper on pan-neuronal (aka 'intrinsic') plasticity and its involvement in...[more] |
| intrinsic plasticity synaptic plasticity learning operant Byrne Mozzachiodi |
| Posted on Sunday 27 December 2009 - 17:15:04 |
| Human learning systems interact much like fly learning systems |
| When we discovered a novel learning system in the fruitfly Drosophila (Brembs & Plendl, 2008) and then found out how it interacted with the one learning system which is described in all relevant textbooks (...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 28 December 2012 - 13:40:01 |
| Operant research hits the airwaves |
| The English language service of Deutsche Welle Spectrum has just broadcast a short report on our study on the first operant learning gene. You can get the whole program at this link, or just the ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2008 - 19:18:55 |
| Humans, monkeys and flies all learn the same way |
| Or at least this is what the headlines at Slashdot, ScienceDaily and PhysOrg purport. What the new study (ok, it's actually a month old) shows is that what is called the "generation effect" in humans can also be found in...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 05 September 2007 - 14:28:57 |
| What magpie Gerti and Groucho Marx have in common |
 The news have been full these days with the reports of magpies being able to recognize themselves in the mirror. While this is an interesting, even exciting feat in and of itself, I was more amused by the fact that all a...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 16:15:55 |
| ICN2010: One of the genetic roots of language points to self-learning in fruit flies |
| In 2001, an article was published in the journal Nature that a mutation in the forkhead-domain gene FOXP2 is involved in a hereditary speech and language disorder in a family in Great Britain. Today, many refer to FOXP2...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 30 July 2010 - 19:02:06 |