?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Mathematical+Principles+of+Reinforcement%3A+Based+on+the+Correlation+of+Behaviour+with+Incentives+in+Short-Term+Memory&rft.creator=Killeen%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Behavioral+Biology&rft.subject=Behavioral+%26+Brain+Sciences&rft.subject=Behavioral+Analysis&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.description=Effective+conditioning+requires+a+correlation+between+the+experimenter's+definition+of+a+response+and+an+organism's%2C+but+an+animal's+perception+of+its+behavior+differs+from+ours.+Various+definitions+of+the+response+are+explored+experimentally+using+the+slopes+of+learning+curves+to+infer+which+comes+closest+to+the+organism's+definition.+The+resulting+exponentially+weighted+moving+average+provides+a+model+of+memory+which+grounds+a+quantitative+theory+of+reinforcement+in+which+incentives+excite+behavior+and+focus+the+excitement+on+the+responses+present+in+memory+at+the+same+time.+The+correlation+between+the+organism's+memory+and+the+behavior+measured+by+the+experimenter+is+given+by+coupling+coefficients+derived+for+various+schedules+of+reinforcement.+For+simple+schedules+these+coefficients+can+be+concatenated+to+predict+the+effects+of+complex+schedules+and+can+be+inserted+into+a+generic+model+of+arousal+and+temporal+constraint+to+predict+response+rates+under+any+scheduling+arrangement.+According+to+the+theory%2C+the+decay+of+memory+is+response-indexed+rather+than+time-indexed.+Incentives+displace+memory+for+the+responses+that+occur+before+them+and+may+truncate+the+representation+of+the+response+that+brings+them+about.+This+contiguity-weighted+correlation+model+bridges+opposing+views+of+the+reinforcement+process+and+can+be+extended+in+a+straightforward+way+to+the+classical+conditioning+of+stimuli.+Placing+the+short-term+memory+of+behavior+in+so+central+a+role+provides+a+behavioral+account+of+a+key+cognitive+process.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F591%2F1%2F199802001.html&rft.identifier=++Killeen%2C+Peter++(1994)+Mathematical+Principles+of+Reinforcement%3A+Based+on+the+Correlation+of+Behaviour+with+Incentives+in+Short-Term+Memory.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F591%2F