MS said "No one ever thought that a rewarded rat leaves a different
scent along the pathway than a non-rewarded one."
I guess I wasted a lot of time washing such odor trails out of mazes
between trials. Seems a lot of other psychologists have also had the thought
that MS asserts nobody has ever had. I wonder if MS knows that men produce the
same sex pheromone that swine produce and if because of that he also asserts
that no behavior in Eurocentric men can be conditioned.
Recommended readings (especially # 4, and yes, the subjects are rats)
1 General Introduction to the Special Issue: Odorous Episodes and Episodic
Odors. By: Ludvigson, H. Wayne. Psychological Record, Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue
3, p371, 8p.
2 Introduction To Secion 1: Initial Studies on Episodic Odors From Reward and
Nonreward, and the Ques. By: Ludvigson, H. Wayne. Psychological Record,
Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p379, 17p.
3. Endogenous Odor Control of Animal Runway Performance: Generality, Questions,
and Utility. By: Davis, Stephen F.; Kring, Jason P.. Psychological Record,
Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p396, 12p.
4. Perceptual and Physical Properties of Reward and Nonreward Odors. By:
Taylor, Ronald D.. Psychological Record, Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p408, 25p.
5. Motivationally specific Episodic Odors in Relation to Preexperimental Bias,
Reward Traces, and Urin. By: Ludvigson, H. Wayne; Duell, Mary Nell.
Psychological Record, Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p435, 23p, 6 charts, 2
diagrams, 5 graphs; (AN 2191647)
6. Olfactory Transmission of Averse Information in Rats. By: Batsell, Jr., W.
Robert; Caperton, Jennifer. Psychological Record, Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue 3,
p459, 16p.
7. Discussion of Section 1. By: Ludvigson, H. Wayne. Psychological Record,
Summer99, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p475, 18p.
Database: Academic Search Premier
8. Effects of Conspecific and Predator Odors on Defensive Behavior, Analgesia,
and Spatial Working Mem. By: Williams, Jon L.. Psychological Record, Summer99,
Vol. 49 Issue 3, p493, 44p.
Cheers,
Karl W.
-----Original Message-----
From: michael sylvester [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 12:49 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Worst manuscript reader advice ever?
I am skeptical to apply any type of conditioning principles to
worms and other small
organisms.For one thing worms secrete pheronomes that are important in
their navigation,
Actually ants leave all types of fumic acid in their trails.And what we may
perceive as animal intelligence could really be fixed action patterns to
various pheronomic stimuli.I used to study those maze learning
experiments.No one ever thought that a rewarded rat leaves a different scent
along the pathway than a non-rewarded one. Come on "First feeling out the
narrowest point".
Did Darwin go through any type of peer review process?
Michael"omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
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