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Assessing Corticospinal Excitability During Goal-Directed Reaching Behavior
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2022
Reaching is a fundamental skill that allows humans to interact with the environment. Several studies have aimed to characterize reaching behavior using a variety of methodologies. This paper offers an open-source application of transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess the state of corticospinal excitability in humans during reaching task performance.
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Psychosis: Goals of Pharmacotherapy
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2024
Antipsychotic drugs are a crucial treatment method for acute and chronic psychoses, bipolar illness, and behavioral disorders. The selection of these drugs depends on several factors, including the state of the disease, clinical judgment, possible drug interactions, and the patient's sensitivity to adverse effects. In immediate scenarios, such as delirium and dementia, short-term treatment with low doses of high-potency typical or atypical agents can effectively manage symptom exacerbation. For...
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The Cyclical Behavior of Economic Variables: Direction
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2026
Economic variables often change along with the ups and downs of the business cycle. Some variables move in the same direction as the overall economy. When the economy expands, these variables increase, and when the economy contracts, they decrease. Such variables are described as procyclical. Other variables move in the opposite direction of the business cycle. They tend to decrease when the economy expands and increase when the economy contracts. These are known as countercyclical...
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Nonconscious Mimicry Occurs when Affiliation Goals are Present
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2023
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University People are social chameleons and regularly engage in nonconscious behavioral mimicry. This occurs when an individual unwittingly imitates the behaviors of another person, such as crossing one's legs moments after a person sitting adjacent does so, or adjusting one's body posture to match a conversation partner. Rapport between two people increases behavioral mimicry, just as mimicry also increases rapport. Psychologists have posited...
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Animal Behavior - Concepts
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2019
Drosophila as a Model Organism The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a widely used model organism in biology, though it may be more commonly recognized as a fruit-loving pest. There are multiple reasons that make D. melanogaster an excellent experimental organism: their roughly two-week generation time allows studying multiple generations, they are easily maintained in very small tubes, and their sexual dimorphism enables investigators to easily distinguish between males that have...
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The current value of an outcome can change whether a person continues an action, even when that action previously produced the outcome. Goal-directed responding therefore remains responsive to changing preferences and consequences, whereas automatic habits are less sensitive to those changes. This distinction helps psychologists examine whether behavior reflects flexible evaluation or repetition.
People select actions partly by considering what those actions are expected to produce. When the relationship between an action and its consequence changes, effective behavior requires recognizing that the previous choice may no longer be useful. This principle connects goal pursuit with decision-making and helps explain how learning can alter later choices.
Feedback provides information about whether ongoing behavior is producing the desired result. Executive control helps maintain attention on the goal, compare current progress with that aim, and support adjustments when circumstances shift. Together, these processes make behavior less dependent on an initial plan and more capable of responding to changing conditions.
Motivation supplies the importance or incentive needed to continue pursuing an outcome, while executive control helps organize and regulate the required actions. If either process is insufficient, a person may struggle to maintain effort, evaluate progress, or change strategy. This relationship is especially relevant to understanding self-regulation and persistent problem solving.
A useful analysis tracks the desired outcome, the actions selected, the consequences that follow, and the person’s response to feedback. Researchers can then consider whether behavior changes when outcome value or action consequences change. This approach reveals how people adapt rather than merely repeat previously successful responses.
In educational settings, the framework helps explain how learners pursue desired outcomes, use feedback, and modify their approach when progress is inadequate. It also connects motivation with self-regulation, because students must sustain effort while monitoring results. Studying these processes can clarify why learners persist, change strategies, or disengage from a task.
In clinical contexts, examining goals, motivation, feedback, and self-regulation can help explain patterns of behavior and efforts to modify them. In organizational settings, the same framework applies to how people pursue work-related outcomes and adjust actions when conditions change. These applications extend the topic beyond laboratory decision-making to practical behavior change.