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Response Systems, Antagonistic Responses, and the Behavioral Repertoire
1Neurobehavioral EEG Laboratory, Department of Behavior Analysis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
|January 31, 2022
Summary
Response systems, crucial in behavioral and physiological studies, are defined as interactions between anatomical behaviors, stimuli, and reinforcement history. New systems emerge with learning, with competition resolved in brain circuits.
Area of Science:
- Behavioral science
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
Background:
- Response systems are frequently referenced in behavioral and physiological literature.
- An explicit definition and framework for understanding response systems are lacking.
- Existing literature lacks a clear conceptualization of response systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explicitly define and conceptualize "response systems" within a scientific framework.
- To elucidate the mechanisms underlying the development and interaction of response systems.
- To provide a theoretical basis for understanding complex behaviors.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of existing behavioral and physiological literature.
- Theoretical integration of concepts such as anatomical constraints, stimuli, reinforcement history, and instrumental control.
- Neurobiological framework involving striatum-thalamo-cortical loops.
Main Results:
- Response systems are defined as an interaction between anatomically constrained behavioral topographies, current stimuli, and reinforcement history.
- New response systems can develop through instrumental control of fine-grained topographies.
- Competition between antagonistic responses within systems is resolved at the striatum-thalamo-cortical level.
- Independent systems can be recruited for complex, reinforced functional units.
Conclusions:
- The proposed framework offers a novel understanding of response systems.
- This conceptualization aids in explaining the development and interaction of behaviors.
- The framework highlights the role of reinforcement and neural circuitry in shaping behavioral responses.
Keywords:
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