Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...

Tradition vs. Necessity: Traditionally operant conditioning stories start with a relatively "random" behavior, but they could start with any behavior.

A long-standing debate in neuroscience is whether classical and operant conditioning are mechanistically similar or distinct. The feeding behavior of Aplysia provides a model system suitable for ...

Gregory Razran, Operant vs. Classical Conditioning, The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Sep., 1955), pp. 489-490 ...

Operant conditioning is different to classical conditioning, and it focuses on using either reward or punishment as an incentive to increase or decrease the presence of certain behaviours.

Classical Versus Operant Conditioning You probably know that Ivan Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell by ringing it at feeding time.

The most important thing to remember is that classical conditioning involves automatic or reflexive responses, and not voluntary behavior (that's operant conditioning, and that is a different post).