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Models of Action - Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior (Paperback)
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Models of Action - Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior (Paperback)
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This volume presents an international group of researchers who
model animal and human behavior--both simple and complex. The
models presented focus on such subjects as the pattern of eating in
meals and bouts, the energizing and shaping impact of reinforcers
on behavior, transitive inferential reasoning, responding to a
compound stimulus, avoidance and escape learning, recognition
memory, category formation, generalization, the timing of adaptive
responses, and chromosomes exchanging information. The chapters are
united by a common interest in adaptive behavior--whether of human,
animal, or artificial system--and clearly demonstrate the rich
variety of ways in which this fascinating area of research can be
approached. In so doing, the book demonstrates the range of thought
that qualifies as theorizing in the contemporary study of the
mechanisms of adaptive behavior. It has two purposes: to bring
together a very wide range of approaches in one place and to give
authors space to explain how their ideas developed. Journal
literature often presents fully-formed theories with no explanation
of how an idea came to have the shape in which it is presented. In
this volume, however, leaders in different fields provide
background on the development of their ideas. Where once
psychologists and a few zoologists had this field to themselves,
now various types of computer scientists have added great energy to
the mix.
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