Commentary: Behavior analysis and behavioral neuroscience

Consider the implications, in which a small little-understood difference in the laboratory testing environment and experimental design carves or strengthens a path toward decades of similar research: simple contextual fear conditioning manipulations were used for years with little modification to in...

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Published inFrontiers in human neuroscience Vol. 10; p. 256
Main Author Kolu, Teresa C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 01.06.2016
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects
Autism
behavior analysis
Behavior disorders
behavioral neuroscience
Cognition & reasoning
Collaboration
contextual conditioning
Discrimination
Fear conditioning
hippocampus (Hip)
Nervous system
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
operant conditioning
Parsons, T
Researchers
Self-injury
Single-subject design
Training
United States > US
single-subject design
behavioral neuroscience
contextual conditioning
hippocampus (Hip)
operant conditioning
behavior analysis
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Summary:Consider the implications, in which a small little-understood difference in the laboratory testing environment and experimental design carves or strengthens a path toward decades of similar research: simple contextual fear conditioning manipulations were used for years with little modification to investigate properties of “memory storage and retrieval,” but do not differentially invoke the dorsal CA3 networks of hippocampus as do tasks involving discrimination (Parsons and Otto, 2008). In addition to the potential for experimental contributions, collaboration between behavior analysis and neuroscience is poised to inform more individualized clinical treatment and training for health care providers. [...]given the increasing need for appropriate behavioral services and better behavioral scientists to collaborate with other fields, a substantial subset of behavior analysts entered the field from other professions, lacking adequate education, experience, and mentorship (including role models who are both scientists and practitioners).
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Reviewed by: Brady J. Phelps, South Dakota State University, USA
Edited by: Daniele Ortu, University of North Texas, USA
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00256