کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4316720 1290550 2011 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Closing the circle between perceptions and behavior: A cybernetic view of behavior and its consequences for studying motivation and development
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Closing the circle between perceptions and behavior: A cybernetic view of behavior and its consequences for studying motivation and development
چکیده انگلیسی

ABSTRACTThe dynamic aspect of behavior is exaggerated during social interactions such as sex, combat and rough-and-tumble play where the movements of the two animals involved continually influence one another. The behavioral ‘markers’ abstracted from this stream can greatly influence the conclusions drawn about the effects of experimental procedures and how changes during development are interpreted. By using methods of analysis that treat behaving systems as being dynamic and governed by negative feedback processes, the behavioral markers that are abstracted can more accurately reflect the underlying mechanisms. Using examples from rats engaged in play fighting, serious fighting and food defense, it is shown that motivational from non-motivational contributions to behavioral output and changes in that output with age can be discerned. For example, while sex differences in the frequency of initiating play by juvenile rats are shown to reflect differences in the motivation to engage in this behavior, sex differences in preferred motor patterns used during play do not. Rather, they reflect differences in perceptual and motor systems. Although an issue that is often neglected, we show that behavioral description, and the theoretical underpinnings of that description, is critical for the study of the mechanisms that produce and regulate behavior.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Volume 1, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 404–413
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