Conditional self-discrimination capability was studied in 24 four weeks old subjects Rattus norvegicus. They were assigned to three different conditions of social interaction (isolation, living in pairs, and groups of four ...

The goal of this study is to add evidence of transfer of conditional self-discrimination (abehaviorist version of self-awareness) in animals, only demonstrated in dolphins and hu-man verbal adults. In a series of three ...

Conditional self-discrimination of the subjective night and day in Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. Conditional self-discrimination is defined as a type of stimulus control in which discriminative stimulus is some aspect ...

Abstract This paper intends to examine the cognitive approach to the autistic spectrum disorder (explanation based on the failure of the “theory of mind” mechanism) and face it to the behavior therapies. It emphasizes ...

Traditionally self-awareness has been associated with linguistic capacity and, therefore, exclusively assigned to the human species. However, from two fronts, the independence of the self-awareness and language has been ...

Introducimos en este artículo una versión conductista de la autoconsciencia, basada en el análisis experimental del comportamiento, la ciencia natural de la conducta de los organismos fundada por B. F. Skinner (1938). ...