Explanatory Reductionism in Behavior Analysis

Schaal, David W.

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“…This preference was reinforced by the discovery of neural correlates of various perceptual processes, visualization, various types of memory, emotion, certain language functions, and of many other behavioral phenomena that cognitive psychologists had been claiming as their domain. Schaal (2003) provides an analysis of these dynamics.…”

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“…282-284;O'Keefe & Dostrovsky, 1971). The continued identification and brain mapping of the multiple anatomically distributed sites at which these potentialities of the behavior repertoire are stored, and the ''nestedness'' of those and other sites (Schaal, 2003), are current frontiers of neuroscience.…”

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“…If I have convinced some behavior analysts to suspend, at least temporarily, possible qualms about some of neuroscience's cognitively-tinged terminology and concepts, I would like to point to some ways in which In Search of Memory can be read as an invitation to behavior analysts to collaborate with neuroscientists. Schaal (2003), Green (2006), Timberlake, Schaal, and Steinmetz (2005), Thompson (2007), and Donahoe (2003) have discussed the value of attempts at conceptual synthesis or even collaboration, and I believe that In Search of Memory opens the door even wider. For example, it describes many instances of neuroscience research in which behavior analysts can fill an under-appreciated need by offering a powerful tool-their understanding of behavioral contingencies.…”

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AN INVITATION TO BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS: REVIEW OF IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW SCIENCE OF MIND BY ERIC R KANDEL

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2008

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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This fascinating autobiography and multifaceted case history in neuroscience research is accessible to laymen and potentially instructive to working scientists. Kandel takes the reader through his thought processes as he describes experiments that led to some of the past decades' major neuroscience discoveries (some highlights of which are summarized in the review's Appendix), and eventually to his Nobel Prize. The review analyzes some of the terminological and conceptual issues that have often inhibited communication between behavior analysts and neuroscientists, with special attention to some of Bennett and Hacker's admonitions viewed from the perspective of language evolution and linguistics. The review then discusses opportunities for behavior analysts to collaborate with neuroscientists by applying behavioral contingency analysis to help specify the independent variables of neuroscience experiments described by Kandel. Finally, it examines Kandel's provocative heuristics for locating important research problems, and the lessons that can be gleaned from the book regarding the attributes of potentially great achievers.

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AN INVITATION TO BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS: REVIEW OF IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW SCIENCE OF MIND BY ERIC R KANDEL

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2008

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“…Consequently, there must be scientific truths known about it'' (p. 3). Although readers of this journal would have few problems with the assertion that behavior (here, reports of well-being and correlated responses) changes as a function of environmental events, the role of the neurophysiological correlates of these responses has been a point of debate within the conceptual literature of behavior analysis (e.g., Elcoro, 2008;Reese, 1996;Schaal, 2003).…”

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The science of values: The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

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“…Neither will there be a single set of experiments, or a single experimental question, that seamlessly joins these approaches. Instead, there have been (and will continue to be) specific instances when enough is known about neurobiological and behavioral phenomena to integrate levels successfully (e.g., Schaal, 2003). Further, the potential for integration will be greater as experimenters use causal manipulations and analyses that consider both neuroscience and behavior.…”

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