Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems
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Resumo: | Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representational models of causal relations from Pavlovian procedures, previous work by causal model theory proponents attempted to train rat subjects to represent stimulus A as a cause of both stimulus B and food. By these assumptions, with formal help from Bayesian networks, self-production of stimulus B should reduce expectation of alternative causes, including stimulus A, and their effects, including food. Reduced feeder-directed responding to stimulus B when self-produced has been taken as evidence for a general causal reasoning capacity among rats involving mental maps of causal relations. Critics have rejoined that response competition can explain these effects. The present research replicates the key effect, but uses continuous and finer-grained measurement of a broader range of behaviours. Behaviours not recorded in previous studies contradict both prior explanations. Even results cited in support of these explanations, when measured in finer detail and continuously over longer periods, show patterns not expected by either view, but supportive of a specific-process approach with attention to motivational factors. Still, the abstract prediction from Bayesian networks holds, providing a potentially complementary normative analysis. Behaviour systems theory provides firmer framing for such theories than representational-map alternatives. |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systemscausal reasoningbehaviour systemsBayesian networkscausal model theorycognitive modellingRattus norvegicusCiências Sociais::PsicologiaScience & TechnologyConceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representational models of causal relations from Pavlovian procedures, previous work by causal model theory proponents attempted to train rat subjects to represent stimulus A as a cause of both stimulus B and food. By these assumptions, with formal help from Bayesian networks, self-production of stimulus B should reduce expectation of alternative causes, including stimulus A, and their effects, including food. Reduced feeder-directed responding to stimulus B when self-produced has been taken as evidence for a general causal reasoning capacity among rats involving mental maps of causal relations. Critics have rejoined that response competition can explain these effects. The present research replicates the key effect, but uses continuous and finer-grained measurement of a broader range of behaviours. Behaviours not recorded in previous studies contradict both prior explanations. Even results cited in support of these explanations, when measured in finer detail and continuously over longer periods, show patterns not expected by either view, but supportive of a specific-process approach with attention to motivational factors. Still, the abstract prediction from Bayesian networks holds, providing a potentially complementary normative analysis. Behaviour systems theory provides firmer framing for such theories than representational-map alternatives.This project was supported by funding from the Cognitive Science programme at Indiana University, and supplemented by a research support fellowship from the Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior at Indiana University. Preparation of the manuscript at the Psychology Research Centre (PSI/01662), University of Minho, was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education through national funds and co-financed by FEDER through COMPETE2020 under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007653).Royal SocietyUniversidade do MinhoBowers, Robert IanTimberlake, William20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/65960engBowers RI, Timberlake W. 2018 Causal reasoning in rats’ behaviour systems.R. Soc. open sci.5: 171448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.1714482054-570310.1098/rsos.171448https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.171448info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:42:43Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/65960Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:40:02.001966Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems Bowers, Robert Ian causal reasoning behaviour systems Bayesian networks causal model theory cognitive modelling Rattus norvegicus Ciências Sociais::Psicologia Science & Technology |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Causal reasoning in rats' behaviour systems |
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Bowers, Robert Ian |
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Bowers, Robert Ian Timberlake, William |
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Timberlake, William |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Bowers, Robert Ian Timberlake, William |
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causal reasoning behaviour systems Bayesian networks causal model theory cognitive modelling Rattus norvegicus Ciências Sociais::Psicologia Science & Technology |
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causal reasoning behaviour systems Bayesian networks causal model theory cognitive modelling Rattus norvegicus Ciências Sociais::Psicologia Science & Technology |
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Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representational models of causal relations from Pavlovian procedures, previous work by causal model theory proponents attempted to train rat subjects to represent stimulus A as a cause of both stimulus B and food. By these assumptions, with formal help from Bayesian networks, self-production of stimulus B should reduce expectation of alternative causes, including stimulus A, and their effects, including food. Reduced feeder-directed responding to stimulus B when self-produced has been taken as evidence for a general causal reasoning capacity among rats involving mental maps of causal relations. Critics have rejoined that response competition can explain these effects. The present research replicates the key effect, but uses continuous and finer-grained measurement of a broader range of behaviours. Behaviours not recorded in previous studies contradict both prior explanations. Even results cited in support of these explanations, when measured in finer detail and continuously over longer periods, show patterns not expected by either view, but supportive of a specific-process approach with attention to motivational factors. Still, the abstract prediction from Bayesian networks holds, providing a potentially complementary normative analysis. Behaviour systems theory provides firmer framing for such theories than representational-map alternatives. |
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