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John E. R. Staddon

John E. R. Staddon

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
jers@duke.edu
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
242 Soc/Psych Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Conferences

On the Assignment-of-Credit Problem in Operant Learning

Conference · January 1, 2016 Operant conditioning is the selection of particular activities by the activity-dependent occurrence of pleasant or unpleasant events (reinforcers). Reinforcers are most effective if they closely follow the target activity (contiguity), but it is also impor ... Full text Cite

Is animal learning optimal?

Conference Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics · January 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Humanism and Skinner's radical behaviorism

Conference BEHAVIOR THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY · January 1, 2003 Link to item Cite

Detecting mine-like targets: Synergistic effects of correlated and uncorrelated sensor channels

Conference Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 2001 We report results from an experiment designed to study the perceptual and learning processes involved in the detection of land mines. Subjects attempted to identify the location of spatially distributed targets identified by a sweeping a cursor across a co ... Full text Cite

Detecting hidden targets: a procedure for studying performance in a mine-detection-like task

Conference Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2000 We report preliminary results from an experiment designed to study the perceptual and learning processes involved in the detection of land mines. Subjects attempted to identify the location of spatially distributed targets identified by a sweeping a cursor ... Cite

A diffusion-based guidance system for autonomous agents

Conference Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · March 25, 1998 Search strategy is an important component of any system that uses autonomous agents to detect and neutralize mines. We describe a simple and efficient search strategy derived from research on the adaptive spatial behavior of animals. Electromagnetic sensor ... Full text Cite

The dynamics of memory in animal learning

Conference ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, VOL 2 · January 1, 1998 Link to item Cite

Why behaviorism needs internal states

Conference INVESTIGATIONS IN BEHAVIORAL EPISTEMOLOGY · January 1, 1997 Link to item Cite

A COMPETITIVE NEURAL-NETWORK MODEL FOR THE PROCESS OF RECURRENT CHOICE

Conference PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1993 CONNECTIONIST MODELS SUMMER SCHOOL · January 1, 1994 Link to item Cite

A NOTE ON RATE-SENSITIVE HABITUATION

Conference FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 2 · January 1, 1993 Link to item Cite

Reinforcement learning: Reverse-engineering the behavior of pigeons

Conference International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology Proceedings Abstracts and Summaries · December 1, 1992 Understanding how the brain works is in principles just like understanding any other complex mechanism. Human brains and human beings are hard to work with, so the lower animals provide a better starting place. There are two parts to the problem: How do th ... Cite

ON THE ASSIGNMENT-OF-CREDIT PROBLEM IN OPERANT LEARNING

Conference IJCNN-90-WASH DC : INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOLS 1 AND 2 · January 1, 1990 Link to item Cite