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Charles I. Abramson, Michael Levin
The fields of developmental biology, biomedicine, and artificial life are being revolutionized by advances in synthetic morphology. The next phase of synthetic biology and bioengineering is resulting in the construction of novel organisms (biobots), which exhibit not only morphogenesis and physiology but functional…
Matthew Lewon, Michael Domjan
The characterization of Pavlovian conditioning in behavior analysis is outdated. Pavlovian conditioning is not limited to the conditioning of glandular and visceral responses; it also involves responses that participate in operant contingencies, and the elicitation of motivational or emotional states that affect…
Megan S. Kirby, Trina D. Spencer, Shane T. Spiker
The need to bring behavior analysis to scale is no more obvious or urgent than now. Collaboration between behavior analysts and healthcare workers, educators, policymakers, mental health clinicians, social workers, and so many other professionals is critical to reaching under-resourced and traditionally marginalized…
Victoria Burney, Ebonee Hodder, Clare M. McCann, Sehar Moughal
The convergence of many shifts within and outside the field of behavior analysis have led to an important conclusion: now more than ever before, qualitative behavior analysis as a distinct branch of behaviorism is warranted, useful, and necessary. This article explores what qualitative behavior analysis could be, and…
Evangelia Galanaki, Konstantinos D. Malafantis
In a series of innovative experiments, Bandura (1925-2021), renowned Psychology Professor at Stanford University, USA, and his collaborators (e.g., Bandura and Huston, ; Bandura et al., , ; Bandura, , ) showed that young children exposed to adults' aggression tend to behave aggressively. In these experiments, children…
Santiago Herce Castañon, Christopher R. Stephens
Predicting and understanding behaviour is a primary objective of many disciplines, especially human behaviour, as it is the cause of many of the world’s most pressing problems. Although it is a fundamental concept in multiple disciplines, there is no agreed operational definition of what it is. Neither is there a…
Irina Trofimova
Attempts to revise the existing classifications of psychiatric disorders (DSM and ICD) continue and highlight a crucial need for the identification of biomarkers underlying symptoms of psychopathology. The present review highlights the benefits of using a Functional Constructivism approach in the analysis of the…
Matthias Borgstede, Patrick Anselme
We present a new methodology to partition different sources of behavior change within a selectionist framework based on the Price equation – the Multilevel Model of Behavioral Selection (MLBS). The MLBS provides a theoretical background to describe behavior change in terms of operant selection. Operant selection is…
Yujia Hu, Carrie R. Ferrario, Alexander D. Maitland, Rita B. Ionides + 7 more
Quantifying animal behavior is important for many branches of biological research. Current computational tools for behavioral quantification typically rely on a few pre-defined, simplified features to identify a behavior. However, such an approach restricts the information used and the tool’s applicability to a limited…
Vicente Raja, Matthieu M. de Wit
In the ecological approach to perception and action, information that specifies affordances is available in the energy arrays surrounding organisms, and this information is detected by organisms in order to perceptually guide their actions. At the behavioral scale, organisms responding to affordances are understood as…
Jin Huang, Yutong Xie, Wanli Song, Xingjian Zhang + 3 more
Foundation models have been increasingly applied to behavioral science domains such as psychology, sociology, and economics. While these models show promise in individual tasks such as survey response prediction and human-subject experiment simulation, there remains no systematic understanding of how well they perform…
Olga Procenko, Alice D. Bridges, Amelia Kowalewska, Mikko Juusola + 1 more
Socially-transmitted behavioural traits can, if they persist in a group of animals over time, give rise to locally-adapted phenotypes that can enhance survival. This capacity is widespread through the animal kingdom, and forms the foundation of cultural inheritance. While social learning is well-documented among…
Paulo Sérgio Panse Silveira, José de Oliveira Siqueira, João Lucas Bernardy, Jéssica Santiago + 3 more
of simple reinforcement schedules Authors: ['Paulo Sérgio Panse Silveira' 'José de Oliveira Siqueira' 'João Lucas Bernardy' 'Jéssica Santiago' 'Thiago Cersosimo Meneses' 'Bianca Sanches Portela' 'Marcelo Frota Lobato Benvenuti'] 1Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, S˜ao Paulo, SP, Brazil…
Logan J. Perry, Blanca E. Perez, Larissa Rays Wahba, KL Nikhil + 2 more
Measuring animal behavior over long timescales has been traditionally limited to behaviors that are easily measurable with real-time sensors. More complex behaviors have been measured over time, but these approaches are considerably more challenging due to the intensive manual effort required for scoring behaviors.…
Samuele Bolotta, Guillaume Dumas
This article introduces a three-axis framework indicating how AI can be informed by biological examples of social learning mechanisms. We argue that the complex human cognitive architecture owes a large portion of its expressive power to its ability to engage in social and cultural learning. However, the field of AI…