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Helping Pavlov, Skinner, Tolman, Lorenz, and Tinbergen, Build a Robot: A Behavior Systems Approach
Featured Campus Seminars| Speaker: | William Timberlake, Department of Psychology, University of Indiana |
| Location: | 1147 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Apr 12 2006, 4:10PM |
Research on behavior has emphasized the importance of conditioning procedures, cognition, or the contributions of evolved perceptual-motor units and adaptive motivation. All three approaches analyze and model the mechanisms and outcomes of behavior using simplified "unnatural" conditions, but disagree on how best to proceed. I suggest that starting with an ethological model provides a basis for predicting and understanding the use of conditioning procedures as analytic tools to clarify the operation of underlying systems and start to build a behaving organism.