Motivation is the proximal cause of behavior. It is primary if the goal is essential for individual or species survival and secondary if it has only an indirect, usually learned connection with a primary goal. Although laboratory animals can learn the association between primary and secondary goals...
Our algorithmic understanding of vision has been revolutionized by a reverse engineering paradigm that involves building artificial systems that perform the same tasks as biological systems. Here, we extend this paradigm to social behavior. We embodied a
The meaning of PSYCHOBIOLOGY is the study of mental functioning and behavior in relation to other biological processes.
Biological determinism is the idea that an individual’s characteristics and behavior are dictated by some aspect of biology, like genes. Biological determinists believe environmental factors have no influence on a person. According to biological determinists, social categories like gender, race, sexuali...
This review was developed from the National Institute of Mental Health workshop entitled “Neurobiological Basis of Circadian Rhythms Interaction with Complex Behavior” on July 22–23, 2008. The participants at the workshop were Gary Aston-Jones, Medical University of South Carolina; Ruth Benca, Un...
The meaning of SOCIOBIOLOGY is the comparative study of social organization and behavior in animals including humans especially with regard to its genetic basis and evolutionary history.
Perhaps it’s because they are quick to anger and don’t have the restraint demonstrated by ectomorphs. Maybe it’s because a person with a mesomorphic body type reflects high levels of testosterone, which may lead to more aggressive behavior. Can you think of other explanations for Sheldon’...
Several other examples of rules and the corresponding paths that could be generated from the graph are shown in Fig.1b. They all show the therapeutic basis of how a drug is connected to the disease. A limitation of this approach is the vast amount of evidence chains that can be generated...
This is performed also thanks to the many semantic relations defined between OBO concepts; examples of the different semantic types of such relations included in OBO, and thus that are common to all the ontologies that share the OBO standard, are the foundational (is a, part of), spatial (...
In Droso- phila, cryptochrome appears to be the only photo- receptor involved in light input to the clock, and resid- ual effects of light on rhythmic behavior are considered to be the indirect consequence of vision effects on behavioral rhythms (Emery et al., 2000). In Drosophila, ...