John Donahoe

Emeritus Faculty
John Donahoe
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Learning and Complex Behavior

Education

PhD, 1958, T. H. Morgan School of Biological Sciences, Univ. Kentucky

Center and Institute Affilitation

Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program

Research

Experimental Analysis of Behavior: Reinforcement, Stimulus Control, Neural-network Models, Application of experimental-analytic principles to the interpretation of complex human behavior

Publications

Some publications related to the Unified Reinforcement Principle:

Donahoe, J. W. (2023).Biological behaviorism. In D. Zilio & Carrara (Eds.) Contemporary Behaviorisms in Debate. New York: Springer.
Donahoe, J. W., & Palmer, D. C. (2022). Acquired reinforcement: Implications for autism. American Psychologist, 77(3), 439–452.
Donahoe, J. W. (2017). Behavior analysis and neuroscience: Complementary disciplines. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.107(3), 301-320.
Donahoe, J. W. (2002). Behavior analysis and Neuroscience--Neural network and genetic algorithms. Behavioural Processes, 57, 241–259

See John Donahoe's ResearchGate page for additionlal publications.

Presentations

Donahoe, J. W. Unified reinforcement principle and its neural mechanisms. (2022). Barrett Behavior-Analytic Neuroscience Initiative at the Health Science Center of the University of North Texas. Audio-visual files of lectures available at https://barrettinitiative.org/video-gallery/

Research Areas

Behavioral Neuroscience