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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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Contextual determinants of retrieval in three-month-old infants☆

TL;DR: The authors showed that the context alone, even though it was never exclusively paired with reinforcement, can act as a retrieval cue for infants to learn to kick to produce movement in an overhead crib mobile on a conjugate reinforcement schedule.
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Direct Instrumental Conditioning of Neural Activity Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Derived Reward Feedback

TL;DR: This procedure uses an instrumental shaping procedure to induce a regionally specific increase in activity by providing an explicit monetary reward to reinforce neural activity in the target areas and demonstrates that instrumental conditioning procedures can be used to directly shape neural activity, even without the production of an overt behavioral response.
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