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Beyond statistical inference: a decision theory for sciencePeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 1104, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:549-62. 2006..An alternate formulation is functionally equivalent to the formal theory, transparent, and easy to compute...
Adjunctive behaviors are operantsPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
Learn Behav 41:1-24. 2013..These conceptions organize a wide variety of observations and provide the rudiments for a more general theory of conditioning...- Behavioral variability, elimination of responses, and delay-of-reinforcement gradients in SHR and WKY ratsEspen B Johansen
Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Behav Brain Funct 3:60. 2007..abstract:.. - Origins of altered reinforcement effects in ADHDEspen Borgå Johansen
Centre for Advanced Study CAS at the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway
Behav Brain Funct 5:7. 2009..Theoretical and experimental analyses of these moderating factors will help to determine just how reinforcement processes are altered in ADHD. Such analyses can only help to improve treatment strategies for ADHD... - Evidence for impulsivity in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat drawn from complementary response-withholding tasksFederico Sanabria
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, PO Box 871104 Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Behav Brain Funct 4:7. 2008..abstract:.. - Progressive ratio schedules of reinforcementPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 35:35-50. 2009..Models for response rate and pause duration based on Bizo and Killeen (1997) described performance on AP schedules; GP schedules required an additional parameter representing the contextual reinforcement... - An additive-utility model of delay discountingPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Rev 116:602-19. 2009.... - The dynamics of conditioning and extinctionPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 35:447-72. 2009.... - P pep replicates: comment prompted by Iverson, Wagenmakers, and Lee (2010); Lecoutre, Lecoutre, and Poitevineau (2010); and Maraun and Gabriel (2010)Peter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 1104, McAllister Street, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Methods 15:199-202. 2010..The posterior predictive distribution is an underexploited tool in the analyst's kit that will serve that end, and prep is but one valid implementation of it... - Models of trace decay, eligibility for reinforcement, and delay of reinforcement gradients, from exponential to hyperboloidPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, United States
Behav Processes 87:57-63. 2011.... - Markov model of smoking cessationPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:15549-56. 2011.... - The Four Causes of ADHD: A FrameworkPeter R Killeen
Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
Curr Top Behav Neurosci 9:391-425. 2012..This framework systematizes the nosology, biology, psychology, and evolutionary pressures that cause ADHD... - Bayesian analysis of foraging by pigeons (Columba livia)P R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 22:480-96. 1996..Pigeons were nonoptimal in 3 ways: (a) they departed too early, (b) their departure times were variable, and (c) they were biased in their choices after initial departure. The authors review various explanations of these data... 
The four causes of hypnosisPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 1104, USA
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 51:195-231. 2003..Experimental, technical, and conceptual advances have carried us into a century where the substrates and functions of hypnosis may be represented in synoptic theories that comprise all 4 causes of hypnosis...- Complex dynamic processes in sign tracking with an omission contingency (negative automaintenance)Peter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 1104, Tempe, Arizona 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 29:49-61. 2003..Response rates during trials were correlated with the prior probabilities of a response. Rescaled range analyses showed that the behavioral trajectories were a kind of fractional Brownian motion... - Molecular analyses of the principal components of response strengthPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 78:127-60. 2002..This relation is one of proportionality at low rates and curvilinearity at higher rates... - The principal components of response strengthP R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 75:111-34. 2001..Principal components analysis permitted description in terms of a single latent variable, strength, and this was validated with confirmatory factor analyses. Overall response rate was an excellent predictor of this state variable... - An alternative to null-hypothesis significance testsPeter R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Sci 16:345-53. 2005..In concert with effect size and replication intervals, p(rep) provides all of the information now used in evaluating research, while avoiding many of the pitfalls of traditional statistical inference... - Replicability, confidence, and priorsPeter R Killeen
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA
Psychol Sci 16:1009-12. 2005 - Writing and overwriting short-term memoryP R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Box 1104, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 8:18-43. 2001.... - How the propagation of error through stochastic counters affects time discrimination and other psychophysical judgmentsP R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Rev 107:430-59. 2000..98 yield predictions consistent with performance in temporal discrimination and production and with channel capacities for identification of unidimensional stimuli... - Modeling modelingP R Killeen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 71:275-80; discussion 293-301. 1999..Neither part of the ratio can yet be evaluated for MTS, whose authors provide some cogent challenges to SET... - Modeling operant behavior in the Parkinsonian ratIrene Avila
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, United States
Behav Brain Res 198:298-305. 2009..The present study demonstrates the usefulness of combining operant techniques with a theoretical model to better understand the effects of a neurochemical manipulation... - The "lunching" effect: pigeons track motion towards food more than motion away from itFelipe Cabrera
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Behav Processes 82:229-35. 2009..The distance and motion effects observed under these Pavlovian contingencies were different when pecking to the spot was required for reinforcement (Experiment 4)... - Timing with opportunity cost: concurrent schedules of reinforcement improve peak timingFederico Sanabria
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Learn Behav 37:217-29. 2009..We suggest a model as a first-order approximation to timing with opportunity cost... - Does satiation close the open economy?Diana Posadas-Sánchez
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 1104, USA
Learn Behav 33:387-98. 2005..Behavioral theories may provide a parsimonious alternative to economic theories in accounting for such effects... - Normalized mutual entropy in biology: quantifying division of laborRoot Gorelick
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 4501, USA
Am Nat 164:677-82. 2004..Reinterpreting individuals and tasks makes this methodology applicable to a wide range of other contexts, such as breeding systems and predator-prey interactions... - Modeling the effects of fluoxetine on food-reinforced behaviorFederico Sanabria
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 1104, USA
Behav Pharmacol 19:61-70. 2008..These results support the use of MPR parameter a to index incentive motivation using multiple fixed-ratio schedules that are adjusted to individual performance... - Negative automaintenance omission training is effectiveFederico Sanabria
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 86:1-10. 2006..The model faithfully reproduced cumulative records, and yielded estimates of terminal rates under negative automaintenance that were close to operant level... - Temporal generalization accounts for response resurgence in the peak procedureFederico Sanabria
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, United States
Behav Processes 74:126-41. 2007..A quantitative model of resurgence is described, suggesting how animals respond to the signaling properties of reinforcement omission. Model results were simulated using a stochastic binary counter... - Chronic stress impairs spatial memory and motivation for reward without disrupting motor ability and motivation to exploreJonathan K Kleen
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85224-1107, USA
Behav Neurosci 120:842-51. 2006..Chronic restraint produces functional, neuromorphological, and physiological alterations that parallel symptoms of depression in humans... - All thumbs?Federico Sanabria
Department of Psychology, Box 871104, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Behav Processes 69:143-5; author reply 159-63. 2005..Theories of operant and respondent conditioning may serve as the theoretical framework required to flesh out those details... - The failure of Weber's law in time perception and productionLewis A Bizo
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Behav Processes 71:201-10. 2006..J., 1975. Discrimination of short temporal intervals: a comparison of two models. Percept. Psychophys. 18, 1-8). A model of counter failure accommodated the U-shaped pattern...
Research Grants
- Dynamic Models of ReconditioningPeter Killeen; Fiscal Year: 2006..By providing statistically powerful tests of competing models of underlying behavioral machinery, we may get closer to understanding how to mitigate such fatal obsessions. ..