Sentence examples for behavioral shaping from inspiring English sources

The 5-CSRTT apparatus, behavioral shaping, trial design, and training are described in detail elsewhere (12) (see also Supplement 1).

Each rat underwent a behavioral shaping process to first poke its snout into an odor port and then increase the length of each nose poke.

Using standard behavioral shaping procedures, the animals are trained to fixate and to follow small visual stimuli by rewarding them with a drop of fruit juice from a gravity-fed "straw" for successfully completing each series of eye movements defined by the presentation of the stimuli.

Using standard behavioral shaping procedures, the animals were trained to fixate and to follow small visual or auditory stimuli by rewarding them with a drop of fruit juice from a gravity-fed "straw" for successfully completing each series of eye movements defined by the presentation of the stimuli.

The caregiver was taught to follow the child's behavioral lead, shaping their responses into interactional sequences.

Fundamental causes theory, for example, describes social conditions (e.g., socioeconomic position) as determinants of resource access and psychological and behavioral experience, shaping disease risk (Link and Phelan 1995).

Such work will help clarify which process develops first (e.g., the neural framework develops to facilitate behavioral performance, or behavioral proficiency shapes neural responses).

Dr. Foley said that in explaining the evolution of human social institutions, "there must be both a set of human behavioral propensities, shaped by selection, and a pattern of historically specific developments" like population density and available resources.

These findings suggest that randomness plays an important role in promoting non-ethnocentric cooperation and contributes to our understanding of how other than adaptive mechanisms can initiate the design of novel behavioral phenotypes, thereby shaping surprisingly new evolutionary pathways.

Work in many systems has shown that a class of neurotransmitters known as neuromodulators have key roles in shaping behavioral prioritization.

Suites of correlated behavioral tendencies are termed behavioral syndromes, and our present study provides correlational evidence for the evolutionary significance of SCR in shaping a behavioral syndrome at the species level across poeciliid taxa.