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The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
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The article was published on 1938-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3337 citations till now.

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The Abuse Liability and Therapeutic Potential of Drugs Evaluated for Cocaine Addiction as Predicted by Animal Models

TL;DR: The intent of this review was to present data from animal models that assessed the reinforcing effects of these monoamine agonists using drug self-administration, and the rewarding effects, using the conditioned place preference paradigm to determine if animal models of reinforcing and rewarding effects were predictive of these drugs’ effects in humans.
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2013 Special Issue: Intrinsically motivated action-outcome learning and goal-based action recall: A system-level bio-constrained computational model

TL;DR: A bio-constrained system-level model that contributes a major step towards integrating all key aspects of intrinsically motivated learning and behaviour while taking into account the relevant neurobiological constraints is proposed.
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Symbolic representation in animals: Emergent stimulus relations in conditional discrimination learning

TL;DR: Evidence for the common representation of stimuli associated with the same arbitrary event extends the nature of those representations beyond those well-established effects found when the common events are biologically important (e.g., the differential outcomes effect).
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An effect analogous to “frustration” on interval reinforcement schedules

TL;DR: There are similarities between pigeons’ behavior under interval reinforcement schedules and the behavior of rats in runways and a free-operant experiment analogous in certain respects to the double-runway procedure produced large “frustration effects” in pigeons.
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Cognitive components of color vision in honey bees: how conditioning variables modulate color learning and discrimination.

TL;DR: Evidence is reviewed showing that color learning and discrimination in bees are not governed by immutable properties of their visual system, but depend on how the insects are trained and thus learn a task, and top-down attentional modulation of color vision is suggested to explain the changes in colorlearning and discrimination.
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