Increased Goal Tracking in Adolescent Rats Is Goal-Directed and Not Habit-Like

Ethanol Seeking by Long Evans Rats Is Not Always a Goal-Directed Behavior

BACKGROUND Two parallel and interacting processes are said to underlie animal behavior, whereby learning and performance of a behavior is at first via conscious and deliberate (goal-directed) processes, but after initial acquisition, the behavior can become automatic and stimulus-elicited (habitual). With respect to instrumental behaviors, animal learning studies suggest that the duration of tr...

10 Goal - directed imitation

“Stop copying me!” shrieks a friend’s seven-year-old as she admires her bead-bedecked image in the mirror. “I not copying!” responds her three-year-old sister indignantly, while fingering rows of beaded necklaces around her own neck. Anyone who has observed a similar scene knows that a heated argument follows about “what counts” as copying, and whether playing with beads might be the result of ...

Efficient Goal-Directed Exploration

If a state space is not completely known in advance, then search algorithms have to explore it sufficiently to locate a goal state and a path leading to it, performing therefore what we call goal-directed exploration. Two paradigms of this process are pure exploration and heuristic-driven exploitation: the former approaches explore the state space using only knowledge of the physically visited ...

Goal-directed Proof Theory

Goal-directed actions