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Probability Relations within Response Sequences under Ratio Reinforcement.

01 Apr 1958-Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior)-Vol. 1, Iss: 2, pp 109-121
About: This article is published in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.The article was published on 1958-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 264 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reinforcement.

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TL;DR: Interestingly, the present nicotine effects on BV, opposite to previous reports using inhibitory drugs, suggest the hypothesis that excitatory and inhibitory Drugs might differentially affect general BV neurochemical mechanisms for Radial Arm- Maze extinction.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: Anekdote: "Ein Schlosher wollte einen Raben toten, der im Wachturm des Schlosses nistete, and hatte mehrmals versucht, den Vogel zu uberraschen" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Viele Bucher zur Naturgeschichte erzahlen seit dem 18. Jahrhundert die folgende Anekdote: Ein Schlosherr wollte einen Raben toten, der im Wachturm des Schlosses nistete, und hatte mehrmals versucht, den Vogel zu uberraschen. Aber jedesmal, wenn er sich dem Nest naherte, flog der Rabe weg und lies sich auser Schusweite in einem benachbarten Baum nieder, kam jedoch zuruck, sobald sein Verfolger den Turm wieder verlassen hatte. Der Schlosherr griff daraufhin zu einer List: Er lies zwei seiner Begleiter in den Turm ein; nach wenigen Minuten zog sich der eine zuruck, wahrend der andere blieb. Der Rabe aber lies sich nicht uberlisten und wartete das Verschwinden des zweiten ab, bevor er an seinen alten Platz zuruckkehrte. Auch drei, vier und funf Manner konnten das kluge Tier nicht uberlisten, denn jedesmal wartete es, bis alle Jager den Turm verlassen hatten. Das Experiment gelang schlieslich mit sechs Personen, denn als funf von ihnen den Turm verlassen hatten, kam der doch nicht so zahlenkundige Rabe zuruck und wurde vom sechsten Jager erlegt.
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TL;DR: This paper developed a video game and feedback-based training pipeline to study uncertainty during decision making, and demonstrated that human choices are inconsistent with popular diffusion models of human decision making and instead are best fit by models in which perceptual uncertainty scales nonlinearly with the strength of sensory evidence.
Abstract: Perceptual uncertainty sets critical constraints on our ability to accumulate evidence and make decisions; however, its sources remain unclear. We developed a video game, and feedback-based training pipeline, to study uncertainty during decision making. Leveraging choices from hundreds of subjects, we demonstrate that human choices are inconsistent with popular diffusion models of human decision making and instead are best fit by models in which perceptual uncertainty scales nonlinearly with the strength of sensory evidence.
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TL;DR: I am indebted to Professor Lighthill for some further illuminating remarks regarding this point and his comments on Heisenberg's Theory of Isotropic Turbulence are highly illuminating.
Abstract: 1 G. K. Batchelor, The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1954). 2 G. K. Batchelor and A. A. Townsend, \"Decay of Turbulence in the Final Period of Decay,\" Proc. Roy. Soc. London, A, 194, 527-543, 1948. 3 W. Heisenberg, \"Zur statistischen Theorie der Turbulenz,\" Z. Physik, 124, 628-657, 1948. 4W. H. Reid, \"Two Remarks on Heisenberg's Theory of Isotropic Turbulence,\" Quart. Appl. Math. 14, 201-205, 1956. 6 Cf. M. J. Lighthill, Nature, 173, 746, 1954. I am indebted to Professor Lighthill for some further illuminating remarks regarding this point.

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