#operant — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #operant, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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 🥳