...; and profoundly wrong – view of a great man. Not B. F. Skinner this time, but a much grander figure, none other than Charles Darwin. Fodor's often m
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...are remembered until a response is emitted, and reinforcers reach back in time to effect this response in the presence of the remembered stimulus...]]
..., and physiology must require that the memory of an event flows forward in time, rather than the reinforcer effect flowing backwards. But the response-cent
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...ecies and are capable of metacognition. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that rats are capable of metacognition – i.e., they know when they do
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...r example, Krebs & Davies, 1978, or Staddon, 1980). Now, apparently, it is time for economics to make the same transition from optimality theory to some ki
...ortunately we know so little about how the brain actually works, as a real-time machine, that this is rarely possible. For example, behavior shows that ani
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