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Learning As Self-organization (Paperback)
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Learning As Self-organization (Paperback)
Series: INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings Series
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A year before his death, B.F. Skinner wrote that "There are two
unavoidable gaps in any behavioral account: one between the
stimulating action of the environment and the response of the
organism and one between consequences and the resulting change in
behavior. Only brain science can fill those gaps. In doing so, it
completes the account; it does not give a different account of the
same thing." This declaration ended the epoch of radical
behaviorism to the extent that it was based on the doctrine of the
"empty organism," the doctrine that a behavioral science must be
constructed purely on its own level of investigation. However,
Skinner was not completely correct in his assessment. Brain science
on its own can no more fill the gaps than can single level
behavioral science. It is the relation between data and
formulations developed in the brain and the behavioral sciences
that is needed.
This volume is the result of The Fourth Appalachian Conference on
Behavioral Neurodynamics, the first three of which were aimed at
filling Skinner's first gap. Taking the series in a new direction,
the aim of the fourth and subsequent conferences is to explore the
second of the gaps in the behavioral account noted by Skinner. The
aim of this conference was to explore the aphorism: "The motivation
for learning is self organization." In keeping with this aim and in
the spirit of previous events, this conference's mission was to
acquaint scientists working in one discipline with the work going
on in other disciplines that is relevant to both. As a result, it
brought together those who are making advances on the behavioral
level -- mainly working in the tradition of operant conditioning --
and those working with brains -- mainly amygdala, hippocampus, and
far frontal cortex.
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