Operant learning is a process by which a specific behavioural response (such as a lever press) is associated with a biologically salient stimulus known as a reinforcer (such as food). The dorsomedial ...

Abstract: Nowadays, memcapacitor-based associative memory neural networks are focusing on classical conditioning roles and ignoring operant conditioning roles. In this article, a biomimetic model of ...

Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded ...

Abstract: This article presents a novel scheme, namely, an intermittent learning scheme based on Skinner’s operant conditioning techniques that approximates the optimal policy while decreasing the ...

(Image: Bertrand Russell and W.M. Newton, Editor, BBC Talks Department.) The inaugural Reith Lecture was given on 26 December 1948 by Bertrand Russell. In a series of 6 talks Russell spoke on the ...

Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures will reflect on moments in history, including the likes of the suffragette and abolitionist movements, which have sparked transformative moral revolutions, offering hope ...

All lectures can be attended virtually via Zoom; students use the chat function to submit questions. All lectures are recorded and available for students to watch upon request (instructions on viewing ...

‘The very word “America” remains a new, almost completely undefined and extremely controversial proper noun,’ James Baldwin wrote in 1959. ‘No one in the world seems to know exactly what it describes, ...

Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms in the final Reith Lecture from his series 'Science and the Common Understanding'. Show more This year's Reith Lecturer is ...

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