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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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Habits, action sequences and reinforcement learning

TL;DR: It is suggested that introducing model‐free RL in instrumental conditioning is unnecessary, and demonstrated that reconceptualizing habits as action sequences allows model‐based RL to be applied to both goal‐directed and habitual actions in a manner consistent with what real animals do.
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The complementary brain: unifying brain dynamics and modularity.

TL;DR: This article presents one alternative to the computer analogy that suggests brains are organized into independent modules and evidence is reviewed that brains are in fact organized into parallel processing streams with complementary properties.
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Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

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