Learning the temporal dynamics of behavior

Journal/Book: Psychol Rev. 1997; 104: 750 First St NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242. Amer Psychological Assoc. 241-265.

Abstract: This study presents a dynamic model of how animals learn to regulate their behavior under time-based reinforcement schedules. The model assumes a serial activation of behavioral states during the interreinforcement interval, an associative process linking the states with the operant response, and a rule mapping the activation of the states and their associative strength onto response rate or probability. The model fits data sets from fixed-interval schedules, the peak procedure, mixed fixed-interval schedules, and the bisection of temporal intervals. The major difficulties of the model came from experiments that suggest that tinder some conditions animals may time 2 intervals independently and simultaneously.

Note: Article Machado A, Indiana Univ, Dept Psychol, Bloomington,IN 47405 USA

Keyword(s): REINFORCEMENT; PIGEONS; TIME; PRINCIPLES; BISECTION; INTERVALS; CHOICE; DISCRIMINATION; PACEMAKER; SCHEDULES

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