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Professor of Psychology and Neural Science Motivation, Conditioning, and LearningTogetherness in rodents may be more social than sexual. We've trained rats and mice to perform a learned response for access to another member of the same species. To our surprise, it does not seem to matter whether the suject rat is sexually motivated by hormones or not, or whether the target animal is receptive or not receptive or the same or opposite sex. Rats like to be with rats and if a sexual encounter is added to the experience it doesn't matter much. Explicit sexual behavior is well known to be tightly controlled by hormones, but little is known about the hormonal basis, if any, of social motivation. We're now using both genetic "knock-out" manipulations and surgical/physiologic manipulations of hormones in a search for the modulators of social motivationEducation:Ph.D. 1970 (experimental psychology), BrownM.A. 1966 (experimental psychology), Bucknell B.A. 1964 (psychology), American Affiliations:- American Psychological Association- American Psychological Society - Psychonomic Society back to the top
Papadouka, V. and Matthews, T. J. (1995). Motivational mechanisms and schedule-induced behavioral stereotypy. Animal Learning and Behavior 22, 354-363. Allan, R. W., and Matthews, T. J. (1992). "Turning back the clock" on serial-stimulus sign tracking. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 56, 427-443. Allan, R. W., and Matthews, T. J. (1992). Selective sensitivity of schedule-induced activity to an operant suppression contingency. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 58, 471-483. Bordi, F., and Matthews, T. J. (1990). The effects of psychoactive drugs on schedule-controlled behavior in the pigeon. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 53, 87-102. Allan, R. W., and Matthews, T. J. (1990). Comparative effects of food and water deprivation on movement patterns in the pigeon (Colomba Livia). Behavioural Processes 20, 41-48. Matthews, T. J., Bordi, F., and Depollo, D. (1990). Schedule-induced kinesic and taxic behavioral stereotypy in the pigeon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 16, 335-344. Matthews, T. J., and Lerer, B. E. (1987). Behavior patterns in pigeons during autoshaping with an incremental conditioned stimulus. Animal Learning and Behavior 1, 69-75. Rosenthal, R. L., and Matthews, T. J. (1978). The effects of prefeeding on autoshaping and omission training. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 11, 153-156. Matthews, T. J., McHugh, T. G., and Carr, L. D. (1974). Instrumental and Pavlovian determinants of response suppression in the pigeon. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 87, 500-506. back to the top
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