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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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Constraint Induced Movement Techniques To Facilitate Upper Extremity Use in Stroke Patients.

TL;DR: A new therapeutic approach to the rehabilitation of movement after stroke, termed constraint-induced (CI) movement therapy, has been derived from basic research with monkeys given somatosensory deafferentation, and patients who will benefit from therapy can be identified before the beginning of treatment.
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Mathematical principles of reinforcement

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the slopes of learning curves to infer which response comes closest to the organism's definition of the response, and the resulting exponentially weighted moving average provides a model of memory that is used to ground a quantitative theory of reinforcement, where incentives excite behavior and focus the excitement on responses that are contemporaneous in memory.
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The EthoVision video tracking system: A tool for behavioral phenotyping of transgenic mice

TL;DR: EthoVision is a specific example of such a system, and its functionality that is particularly relevant to transgenic mice studies is described, and key practical aspects of using the EthoVision system are outlined, including tips about lighting, marking animals, the arena size, and sample rate.
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The Mentality of Apes

TL;DR: Koehler's analysis of the intelligence of higher primates marked a turning point in the psychology of thinking and the continuing struggle between behaviorism and cognitive psychology as discussed by the authors, but it was largely ignored for decades because it violated the conventional wisdom that animal behavior is simply the result of instinct or conditioning.
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Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

TL;DR: Wozniak as mentioned in this paper describes the early elaboration of the theory of reflex, habit, and implicit response in the early stages of the development of the early development of behaviourism.