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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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Action, time and the basal ganglia

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the basal ganglia control the rate of change in kinaesthetic perceptual variables is advanced, in particular, the sensorimotor cortico-basal ganglia network implements a feedback circuit for the control of movement velocity.
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What are intrinsic motivations? A biological perspective

TL;DR: This theoretical paper shows how intrinsic motivations can be defined contrasting them to extrinsic motivations from an evolutionary perspective, and links the theory to the current major computational views on intrinsic motivations and by listing the main open issues of the field.
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Intravenous Drug Self-Administration: A Special Case of Positive Reinforcement

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a comparison between drug reinforcement and food reinforcement and show that drug reinforcement has more rapid and direct effects in the central nervous system than food reinforcement, where satiety is delayed by many minutes after food reward and it is immediate with drug reinforcement.
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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.