A5071784433- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Real-Time Systems Scheduling
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Formal Methods in Verification
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
Swansea University
2016-2025
Reykjavík University
2016-2025
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
1993-2010
Centre Inria de l'Université Grenoble Alpes
2003-2010
University of Wales
2005-2008
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2005
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
2005
University College Dublin
2005
Leiden University
2005
Anglia Ruskin University
2000-2005
In Experiment 1, 2 experimental subjects were given pretraining of nonarbitrary relations that brought their responses under the control four contextual stimuli; same, opposite, more than, and less than. One subject was not exposed to this pretraining. The pretrained 3rd nonpretrained then received training in six arbitrary relations, following being most critical: same/A1‐B1, same/A1‐C1, than/A1‐B2, than/A1‐C2. All 3 tested for seven derived three important: same/B1‐C1, than/B1‐C2,...
Avoidance of threatening or unpleasant events is usually an adaptive behavioural strategy. Sometimes, however, avoidance can become chronic and lead to impaired daily functioning. Excessive threat-avoidance a central diagnostic feature anxiety disorders, yet little known about whether acquired in the absence direct history conditioning with fearful event differs from directly learned avoidance. In present study, we tested indirectly via verbal instructions symbolic generalization result...
Overgeneralization of fear and threat-avoidance represents a formidable barrier to successful clinical treatment anxiety disorders. While stimulus generalization along quantifiable physical dimensions has been studied extensively, less consideration given symbolic generalization, in which stimuli are indirectly arbitrarily related. The present study examined whether the magnitude extent threat-beliefs differed between spider-phobic nonphobic individuals. Initially, participants learned two...
Directly conditioned fear and avoidance readily generalises to dissimilar but conceptually related stimuli. Here, for the first time, we examined conceptual/semantic generalisation of both using real words (synonyms). Participants were exposed a differential conditioning procedure in which one word (e.g., "broth"; CS+) was followed with brief electric shock [unconditioned stimulus (US)] another not "assist"; CS–). Next, an instrumental phase taught presence CS+ CS–. During testing, synonyms...
An original system, Open Robot Controller Computer-Aided Design (ORCCAD), for the computer-aided design of robot controllers is described. Accessed by three different user levels (system, control, and application), it provides a coherent approach from high-level specification down to its implementation, offers several tools design, display, test. Following critical study main architectures reported in literature, basic principles underlying concepts ORCCAD are presented. The entity...
The present study tested the idea that human self‐discrimination response functions may transfer through equivalence relations. Four subjects were trained in six symbolic matching‐to‐sample tasks (if see A1, choose B1; A1‐C1, A2‐B2, A2‐C2, A3‐B3, A3‐C3) and then for formation of three relations (B1‐C1, B2‐C2, B3‐C3). Two B stimuli (B1 B2) used to train two different responses using either detailed instructions (Subjects 1 3) or minimal (Subject 4) on complex schedules reinforcement (i.e.,...
Derived equivalence relations, it has been argued, provide a behavioral model of semantic or symbolic meaning in natural language, and thus relations should possess properties that are typically associated with relations. The present study sought to test this basic postulate using priming. Across three experiments, participants were trained tested two 4-member word-like nonsense words. Participants also exposed single- two-word lexical decision task, both direct (Experiment 1) mediated...
Research on the emergence of human avoidance behavior in absence direct contact with an aversive event is somewhat limited. Consistent work derived relational responding, present study sought to investigate transformation response functions accordance frames Same and Opposite. Participants were first exposed nonarbitrary arbitrary training testing order establish Opposite relations among stimuli. The tasks were; Same—A1–B1, Same—A1–C1, Opposite—A1–B2, Opposite—A1–C2. Next, all possible...
Executive functioning (EF) is an important concept in cognitive psychology that has rarely been studied people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The aim of this study was to examine the validity two test batteries and structure EF client group.We administered children's version Behavioural Assessment Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS-C) Cambridge Functioning (CEFA) for ID, 40 participants who attended day centres mild moderate learning [mean full-scale intelligence quotient (IQ) = 59]. BADS-C...