The innovative development of Karl Deisseroth was instrumental to the work summarized in Frozen by Punishment and Lighting the Pathways of Reward and Punishment, the team that includes Deisseroth has developed a new imaging technique called CLARITY. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I did.
“Positive reinforcement results in lasting behavioral modification, whereas punishment changes behavior only temporarily and presents many detrimental side effects.” B.F. Skinner (1970) Balanced and dominance trainers tend to present reward and punishment as opposite sides of the same coin, as if choosing one over the other was a matter of taste. This simplistic picture ignores…
I was planning something else, but I finally opened this month’s issue of the HHMI Bulletin and this article was too good not to share. It is a wonderfully accessible article that explores the difference between eating for pleasure and eating to satiate hunger, and they are not as different as one would imagine. In…
Science and Dogs 