Ype KingmaIs there any research done on how #chatgpt and consorts change our society into a Skinner box?
Björn BrembsMotor 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/
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 […]
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 […]
Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
I was very excited when our latest research paper came out, after all, I was confident our 30-year-long search for the sites of plasticity in the form of motor learning we study was coming to an end. In this work, we were fairly confident that underlying the type of learning we study was a novel form of plasticity in a very specific set of motor neurons in the ventral nerve cord of the flies we use for our research. The reason for our confidence was the convergence of several lines of [...]
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/07/whodathunk-motor-learning-in-motor-neurons-huh/
Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
I was very excited when our latest research paper came out, after all, I was confident our 30-year-long search for the sites of plasticity in the form of motor learning we study was coming to an end. In this work, […] <a class="more-link" href="https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/07/whodathunk-motor-learning-in-motor-neurons-huh/">↓ Read the rest of this entry...</a>
Kara Finance
The speed (or lack thereof) of science
It was my freshman year, 1991. I was enthusiastic to finally be learning about biology, after being forced to waste a year in the German army’s compulsory service at the time. Little did I know that it was the same […] <a class="more-link" href="https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/01/the-speed-or-lack-thereof-of-science/">↓ Read the rest of this entry...</a>
𝕎𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕞I 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 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 🥳
Archie's BFF@laurakinsale @PiPtrainer I am also part of a training and behaviour community elsewhere but would love to be part of that type of community here. My training work is mostly with dogs but I study behaviour in general.
#clickertraining #LIMA #operant #behaviour
#clickertraining #LIMA #operant #behaviour