The challenge of characterizing operations in the mechanisms underlying behavior

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-325

  Bechtel, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Laws; Levels of organization; Mechanistic explanation; Operations; Symbolic theories

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 33644786227     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2005.103-04     Document Type: Review

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