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January 1, 2020
The dominant paradigm in neuroscience, the linear causation paradigm, has led to a number of conceptual confusions about how the brain generates behavior. Because biological organisms are collections of closed loop control systems, their behaviors cannot b ...
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January 1, 2013
The dominant paradigm in the study of behavior today is the linear causation paradigm. This paradigm, inspired by classical physics, assumes that causes precede effects, that the behavior of organisms is caused by antecedent events inside and outside the o ...
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January 1, 2005
Addiction can be viewed as a maladaptive form of learning. This chapter discusses the relevant types of learning implicated in addiction and their neural substrates. First, we describe the associative structures of various learning processes-abstract descr ...
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