Animal Learning and Behavior Lab
Alejandro Macías
Email:josea.maciasaa@udlap.mx |
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I have a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of the Americas Puebla and a Master’s degree in Experimental Analysis of Behavior from University of Guadalajara, both in Mexico. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Basic Psychology at University of Minho under the supervision of Professors Marco Vasconcelos and Armando Machado. For this goal, I have been granted a scholarship by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). |
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I am interested in Learning and Comparative Psychology. More specifically I am concerned with the mechanistic and functional causes of choice. I take these perspectives to a broad range of decision phenomena such as suboptimal behavior, intertemporal choice and social cooperation. Currently I am working on the apparently suboptimal preference for alternatives providing a low rate of reinforcement when reliable signals precede presence or absence of food. I want to contrast informative and associative hypotheses in the concept of conditioned reinforcer to understand this behavior. |
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