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Helping Pavlov, Skinner, Tolman, Lorenz, and Tinbergen, Build a Robot: A Behavior Systems Approach

Dr. William Timberlake, Psychology Dept., Indiana University presents Helping Pavlov, Skinner, Tolman, Lorenz, and Tinbergen, Build a Robot: A Behavior Systems Approach

What Complex Systems Seminar
When April 12, 2006
from 04:10 pm to 05:00 pm
Where MSB 1147
Contact Name Dr. William Timberlake
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Contact Phone (812) 855-4042
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Dr. William Timberlake from the Department of Psychology at Indiana University will lead a seminar titled Helping Pavlov, Skinner, Tolman, Lorenz, and Tinbergen, Build a Robot: A Behavior Systems Approach. All are invited to attend.

Research on behavior has emphasized the importance of conditioning procedures, cognition, or the contributions of evolved perceptual-motor units and adaptive motivation. All three approaches analyze and model the mechanisms and outcomes of behavior using simplified "unnatural" conditions, but disagree on how best to proceed. I suggest that starting with an ethological model provides a basis for predicting and understanding the use of conditioning procedures as analytic tools to clarify the operation of underlying systems and start to build a behaving organism.

This seminar is part of CSE's ongoing Science of Complex Systems Seminar Series.