In his talk, Wrangham argued that natural selection triggered just such a process of delayed development and reduced aggression in humans.
Moreover, quantitative analysis of inter-temporal choice suggests that lesions of this structure have a selective effect on the process of delay discounting, and do not alter rats' sensitivity to reinforcer size [4,5].
The AcbC may play a more restricted role in inter-temporal choice, but may especially important in the process of delay discounting.
In this contribution, we propose modelling the process of delay propagation by using complex networks, in which nodes are associated to airports, and links between pairs of them are assigned when a delay propagation is detected.
The hypothetical process of delay discounting, whereby reinforcing outcomes are deemed to be devalued by delays interposed between the choice response and the delivery of the primary reinforcer, is widely assumed to imply the operation of a timing process [49 52].
The hypothetical process of delay discounting, whereby reinforcing outcomes are deemed to be devalued by the delay interposed between the choice response and the delivery of the primary reinforcer, is widely assumed to imply the operation of a timing process [36].
One important determinant of inter-temporal choice is the organism's sensitivity to delay of reinforcement, expressed by the hypothetical process of delay discounting whereby reinforcer value is postulated to be degraded as a function of the length of the response reinforcer interval [2,3,24,27,34].
However, since no delays were imposed in the adjusting-magnitude schedule, the possibility cannot be excluded that the differences in Fos expression in the AcbC associated with the two adjusting schedules reflected the mere presence of delays, rather than the process of delay discounting.
The therapeutic grieving involved in planning and participating in a funeral -- usually a process of a few days -- is delayed and prolonged.
