scholarly journals The Contributions of Motor Neuronal and Muscle Modulation to Behavioral Flexibility in the Stomatogastric System

1995 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 548-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATSY S. DICKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Stomatogastric System

FIT – Do Something Different

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben (C) Fletcher ◽  
Jill Hanson ◽  
Nadine Page ◽  
Karen Pine
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Behavioral Repertoire ◽  
Additional Weight

Two 3-month longitudinal studies examined weight loss following a 1-month behavioral intervention (FIT-DSD) focusing on increasing participants’ behavioral flexibility and breaking daily habits. The goal was to break the distal habits hypothesized as playing a role in unhealthy dietary and activity behaviors. The FIT-DSD intervention required participants to do something different each day and to engage in novel weekly activities to expand their behavioral repertoire. These activities were not food- or exercise-related. In Study 1, the FIT-DSD program was compared with a control condition where participants engaged in daily tasks not expected to influence behavioral flexibility. Study 2 used an active or quasicontrol group in which half the participants were also on food diets. Measures in both studies were taken pre-, post-, and post-postintervention. In Study 1, FIT-DSD participants showed greater weight loss that continued post-postintervention. In Study 2, all participants on the FIT-DSD program lost weight, weight loss continued post-postintervention, and participants who were also dieting lost no additional weight. A dose relationship was observed between increases in behavioral flexibility scores and weight loss, and this relationship was mediated by calorie intake. Corresponding reductions in BMI were also present. Increasing behavioral flexibility may be an effective approach for tackling obesity and also provides affective and potential life-skill benefits.

The Contributions of the Prelimbic Area to Behavioral Flexibility

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Ragozzino ◽  
Jenna Kim ◽  
Derrick Hasstert ◽  
Nancy Minniti ◽  
Charlene Kiang
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility

Kecakapan Behavioral Dalam Proses Pembelajaran PAI Melalui Komunikasi Interpersonal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Latifah Latifah ◽  
Ngalimun Ngalimun ◽  
Muhammad Andi Setiawan ◽  
Makmur Haji Harun
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Communication Anxiety ◽  
Social Style ◽  
Interaction Management

Penelitian ini membuat gambaran secara sistematis tentang bagaimana Kecakapan Behavioral dalam proses pembelajaran PAI melalui komunikasi interpersonal di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah AssalamMartapura. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada kecakapan behavioral yang artinya kecakapan pada tingkat perilaku. Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang untuk melaksanakan perilaku yang membawa seseorang mencapai tujuan dalam komunikasi dengan orang lain. Kecakapan behavioral ini meliputi: 1) Keterlibatan interaktif (interactive involvement). Kecakapan ini menentukan tingkat keikutsertaan dan partisipasi seseorang dalam komunikasi dengan orang lain. Kecakapan ini meliputi, sikap tanggap (responsiveness), sikap perseptif (perceptiveness) dan sikap penuh perhatian (attentiveness). 2) Manajemen interaksi (interaction management). Kecakapan itu membantu seseorang mampu mengambil tindakan-tindakan yang berguna bagi seseorang untuk mencapai tujuan komunikasi. 3) Keluwesan perilaku (behavioral flexibility). Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang untuk melaksanakan berbagai kemungkinan perilaku yang dapat diambil untuk mencapai tujuan komunikasi. 4) Mendengarkan (listening). Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang untuk dapat mendengarkan orang yang berkomunikasi dengan seseorang tidak hanya isi, tetapi juga perasaan, keprihatinan, dan kekhawatiran yang menyertainya. 5) Gaya sosial (social style). Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang dapat berperilaku menarik, khas, dan dapat diterima oleh orang yang berkomunikasi dengan seseorang tersebut. 6) Kecemasan komunikasi (communication anxiety). Dengan kecakapan ini seseorang dapat mengatasi rasa takut, bingung, dan kacau pikiran, tubuh gemetar, dan rasa demam panggung yang muncul dalam komunikasi dengan orang lain.

Phenotypic plasticity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen D. Williams ◽  
Marla B. Sokolowski
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Behavioral Plasticity ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Insect Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Variability ◽  
Gene By Environment Interactions ◽  
Affect Gene Expression

Why is there so much variation in insect behavior? This chapter will address the sources of behavioral variability, with a particular focus on phenotypic plasticity. Variation in social, nutritional, and seasonal environmental contexts during development and adulthood can give rise to phenotypic plasticity. To delve into mechanism underlying behavioral flexibility in insects, examples of polyphenisms, a type of phenotypic plasticity, will be discussed. Selected examples reveal that environmental change can affect gene expression, which in turn can affect behavioral plasticity. These changes in gene expression together with gene-by-environment interactions are discussed to illuminate our understanding of insect behavioral plasticity.

scholarly journals Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
Joseph Cesario ◽  
David J. Johnson ◽  
Heather L. Eisthen
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Brain Structures ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Accurate Model ◽  
Nervous System Evolution ◽  
Neural Evolution ◽  
Human Brains ◽  
Unanimous Agreement

A widespread misconception in much of psychology is that (a) as vertebrate animals evolved, “newer” brain structures were added over existing “older” brain structures, and (b) these newer, more complex structures endowed animals with newer and more complex psychological functions, behavioral flexibility, and language. This belief, although widely shared in introductory psychology textbooks, has long been discredited among neurobiologists and stands in contrast to the clear and unanimous agreement on these issues among those studying nervous-system evolution. We bring psychologists up to date on this issue by describing the more accurate model of neural evolution, and we provide examples of how this inaccurate view may have impeded progress in psychology. We urge psychologists to abandon this mistaken view of human brains.

Behavioral flexibility in Belief-Desire- Intention (BDI) architectures

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-377
Author(s):  
Adel Saadi ◽  
Ramdane Maamri ◽  
Zaidi Sahnoun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Simple Experiment ◽  
Bdi Agents ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Other Hand

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model is a popular approach to design flexible agents. The key ingredient of BDI model, that contributed to concretize behavioral flexibility, is the inclusion of the practical reasoning. On the other hand, researchers signaled some missing flexibility’s ingredient, in BDI model, essentially the lack of learning. Therefore, an extensive research was conducted in order to extend BDI agents with learning. Although this latter body of research is important, the key contribution of BDI model, i.e., practical reasoning, did not receive a sufficient attention. For instance, for performance reasons, some of the concepts included in the BDI model are neglected by BDI architectures. Neglecting these concepts was criticized by some researchers, as the ability of the agent to reason will be limited, which eventually leads to a more or less flexible reasoning, depending on the concepts explicitly included. The current paper aims to stimulate the researchers to re-explore the concretization of practical reasoning in BDI architectures. Concretely, this paper aims to stimulate a critical review of BDI architectures regarding the flexibility, inherent from the practical reasoning, in the context of single agents, situated in an environment which is not associated with uncertainty. Based on this review, we sketch a new orientation and some suggested improvements for the design of BDI agents. Finally, a simple experiment on a specific case study is carried out to evaluate some suggested improvements, namely the contribution of the agent’s “well-informedness” in the enhancement of the behavioral flexibility.

scholarly journals Distinct roles for dopamine clearance mechanisms in regulating behavioral flexibility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clio Korn ◽  
Thomas Akam ◽  
Kristian H. R. Jensen ◽  
Cristiana Vagnoni ◽  
Anna Huber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Dopamine Neurons ◽  
Nucleus Accumbens Core ◽  
Comt Inhibition ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Dopamine Signaling ◽  
Precise Relationship ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Kinetics Of

AbstractDopamine plays a crucial role in adaptive behavior, and dysfunctional dopamine is implicated in multiple psychiatric conditions characterized by inflexible or inconsistent choices. However, the precise relationship between dopamine and flexible decision making remains unclear. One reason is that, while many studies have focused on the activity of dopamine neurons, efficient dopamine signaling also relies on clearance mechanisms, notably the dopamine transporter (DAT), which predominates in striatum, and catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), which predominates in cortex. The exact locus, extent, and timescale of the effects of DAT and COMT are uncertain. Moreover, there is limited data on how acute disruption of either mechanism affects flexible decision making strategies mediated by cortico-striatal networks. To address these issues, we combined pharmacological modulation of DAT and COMT with electrochemistry and behavior in mice. DAT blockade, but not COMT inhibition, regulated sub-second dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core, but surprisingly neither clearance mechanism affected evoked release in prelimbic cortex. This was not due to a lack of sensitivity, as both amphetamine and atomoxetine changed the kinetics of sub-second release. In a multi-step decision making task where mice had to respond to reversals in either reward probabilities or the choice sequence to reach the goal, DAT blockade selectively impaired, and COMT inhibition improved, performance after reward reversals, but neither manipulation affected the adaptation of choices after action-state transition reversals. Together, our data suggest that DAT and COMT shape specific aspects of behavioral flexibility by regulating different aspects of the kinetics of striatal and cortical dopamine, respectively.

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