Essays about: "pavlovian conditioning"

Found 2 essays containing the words pavlovian conditioning.

  1. 1. The neural basis of aberrant salience attribution in unmedicated patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Carl Delfin; [2014]
    Keywords : schizophrenia spectrum; aberrant salience attribution; fMRI; BOLD; ventral striatum; associations; pavlovian conditioning;

    Abstract : Due to abnormal functioning of the brain’s reward and prediction system patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders are thought to assign salience to non-relevant objects and events and to form context-inappropriate associations. The brain’s ventral striatum is critical in the formation of associations, and aberrant associations are believed to create delusional content during psychosis. READ MORE

  2. 2. Framework for Classical Conditioning in a MobileRobot: Development of Pavlovian Model andDevelopment of Reinforcement Learning Algorithmto Avoid and Predict Noxious Events

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik

    Author : QUENTIN DELAHAYE; [2014]
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    Abstract : Nowadays, robots have more and more sensors and the technologies allow using them with less contraints as before. Sensors are important to learn about the environment. But the sensors can be used for classical conditioning, and create behavior for the robot. One of the behavior developed in this thesis is avoiding and predicting obstacles. READ MORE