#operant — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #operant, aggregated by home.social.
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Is there any research done on how #chatgpt and consorts change our society into a Skinner box?
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Motor learning mechanisms at #SfN25
Due to political developments, the US have become a much less welcoming and hence dramatically less attractive place for academic conferences. This year, nobody from our research group was interested in attending our otherwise regular meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Thus, it will be only me who will attend and present our only poster: On this poster, we describe how we discovered that an important site of plasticity in motor learning are motor neurons. The type of motor […]https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/11/motor-learning-mechanisms-at-sfn25/
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Embrace the uncertainty
Ever since Werner Heisenberg formulated the uncertainty principle, physics has been grappling with the unsettling realization that the universe does not function like clockwork—a metaphor Newton introduced and which held sway for centuries. In a world where predictability and uncertainty intertwine, interpretations range from die-hard determinists, who reject quantum events despite the mounting evidence, to more esoteric merchants of doubt who exploit the ambiguity.
If Werner Heisenberg […]
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Motor learning at #SfN24
It has been almost 10 years now that we have come to the realization that a particular type of our operant experiments can be classified as motor learning. In such "operant self-learning" experiments, the animal learns about the consequences of its own behavior and adjusts future behavior accordingly. In this experiment, a tethered fly, flying stationarily in an otherwise featureless environment, is trained to avoid/prefer one of two turning directions. The fly is tethered to a torque […]
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I did not direct my life.
I didn’t design it.
I never made decisions.
Things always came up
and made them FOR me.
That’s what life is.
#Reinforcement
#operant #conditioning
#radical #behaviorism
#behavior #analysis
#verbal behavior
#BFSkinner 🥳
#fredricwertham 🥳
#fredrogers 🥳
#Ovid 🥳
#Ibsen 🥳
#BalthasarBekker 🥳
#TorbernBergman 🥳 -
I did not direct my life.
I didn’t design it.
I never made decisions.
Things always came up
and made them FOR me.
That’s what life is.
#Reinforcement
#operant #conditioning
#radical #behaviorism
#behavior #analysis
#verbal behavior
#BFSkinner 🥳
#fredricwertham 🥳
#fredrogers 🥳
#Ovid 🥳
#Ibsen 🥳
#BalthasarBekker 🥳
#TorbernBergman 🥳