Whether a seed lands on a site that is appropriate for germination and establishment, depends greatly on the general characteristics of the surrounding environment, which often vary among microsites and with weather ...

Preexposure to a conditioned stimulus (CS) usually weakens conditioning, an effect known as latent inhibition. Similar to other learning interference effects, latent inhibition has been characterized as context-dependent, ...

The System Architecture definition of the majority of organizations requires a deep understanding about its environment and organizational structure; nevertheless, the construction of such models is not an easy task because ...

This paper describes simulations of two context-dependence phenomena in Pavlovian conditioning, using a neural-network model that draws on knowledge from neuroscience and makes no distinction between operant and respondent ...

This paper describes simulations of two context-dependence phenomena in Pavlovian conditioning, using a neural-network model that draws on knowledge from neuroscience and makes no distinction between operant and respondent ...

Caffeine is the psychostimulant substance consumed in greatest quantities in the world. The repeated administration of psychostimulants can either decrease or increase the drug effect, inducing tolerance or sensitization, ...

The present study evaluated context-dependent learning under an operant conditioning procedure in infant rats. Preweanling rats were trained in context A during postnatal days (PDs) 16 and 17 to learn an appetitive operant ...

Flexibility of foraging behaviour affects our capacity to predict ecological outputs such as population responses to habitat change. Some birds forage following rules of absolute value of the food item (i.e., absolute ...

A core problem of decision theories is that although decisionmakers' preferences depend on learning, their choices could be driven either by learned representations of the physical properties of each alternative (for ...