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      A genealogical map of the concept of habit 

      Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio ORCID; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-07-21)
      The notion of information processing has dominated the study of the mind for over six decades. However, before the advent of cognitivism, one of the most prominent theoretical ideas was that of Habit. This is a concept ...
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      Enactivism is not interactionism 

      De Jaegher, Hanneke ORCID; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2013-01)
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      Increased opioid dependence in a mouse model of panic disorder 

      Gallego, Xabier; Murtra, Patricia; Zamalloa Echevarría, Teresa ORCID; Canals, Josep Maria; Pineda Ortiz, Joseba Gotzon ORCID; Amador Arjona, Alejandro; Maldonado, Rafael; Dierssen, Mara (Frontiers Research Fundation, 2010-02-22)
      [EN] Panic disorder is a highly prevalent neuropsychiatric disorder that shows co-occurrence with substance abuse. Here, we demonstrate that TrkC, the high-affinity receptor for neurotrophin-3, is a key molecule involved ...
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      Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically 

      Di Paolo, Ezequiel; Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio ORCID; Beaton, Michael James Stuart; Buhrmann, Thomas (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-07-30)
      Learning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet understand? According to the sensorimotor approach, ...
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      Modeling habits as self-sustaining patterns of sensorimotor behavior 

      Egbert, Matthew D.; Barandiaran Fernández, Xabier Eugenio ORCID (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-08-08)
      In the recent history of psychology and cognitive neuroscience, the notion of habit has been reduced to a stimulus-triggered response probability correlation. In this paper we use a computational model to present an ...
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      Prosocial behavior and gender 

      Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-04-14)
      This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" ...
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      The interactive brain hypothesis 

      Di Paolo, Ezequiel; De Jaegher, Hanneke ORCID (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2012-06)
      Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific studies involving actual interactions, ...
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      The role of acetaldehyde in the increased acceptance of ethanol after prenatal ethanol exposure 

      Gaztañaga Echeverria, Mirari; Angulo-Alcalde, Asier; Spear, Norman E.; Chotro Lerda, María Gabriela ORCID (Merce Correa, Jaume I University, Spain, 2017-01-31)
      Recent studies show that acetaldehyde, the first metabolite in the oxidation of ethanol, can be responsible for both, the appetitive and the aversive effects produced by ethanol intoxication. More specifically, it has been ...