This article is a perspective arguing that response systems can be understood as an interaction between anatomically constrained behavioral topographies occasioned by currently present stimuli and a history of reinforcement.
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This article is a perspective arguing that response systems can be understood as an interaction between anatomically constrained behavioral topographies occasioned by currently present stimuli and a history of reinforcement.
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Abstract: While response systems are often mentioned in the behavioral and physiological literature, an explicit discussion of what response systems are is lacking. Here we argue that response systems can be understood as an interaction between anatomically constrained behavioral topographies occasioned by currently present stimuli and a history of reinforcement. “New” response systems can develop during the lifetime as the organism gains instrumental control of new fine-grained topographies. Within this framework, antagonistic responses compete within each response system based on environmental stimulation, and competition is resolved at the striatum-thalamo-cortical loops level. While response systems can be by definition independent from one another, separate systems are often recruited at the same time to engage in complex responses, which themselves may be selected by reinforcement as functional units.
This article is part of the research topic Modulation of Behavioral Outcomes by Conditioning Competing States, Valences, or Responses.
Publication Title:
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Volume:
15
Article Identifier:
778420
Pages:
7
Peer Reviewed:
Yes
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Ortu, Daniele & Bugg, Ryan M.Response Systems, Antagonistic Responses, and the Behavioral Repertoire,
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