GEORGE S. REYNOLDS, 1936-1987

Beha Vioral Contrast George S. Reynolds'

A pigeon's rate of key pecking during the presentation of one stimulus may be altered by changing only the schedule of reinforcement associated with a different stimulus (Reynolds, 1960). A change in behavior during the presentation of one stimulus, brought about by changing the schedule associated with a different stimulus, is called an interaction. The change in behavior is called a contrast ...

In Memoriam: George Martin Baer (1936–2009)

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 15, No. 8, August 2009 1335 G Martin Baer, DVM, MPH, who for many years was chief of the Rabies Laboratory in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, died suddenly at his home in Mexico City on June 2, 2009, at the age of 73. He was an eminent veterinary v...

George S . Wise

Who ’ s Afraid of George Kingsley Zipf ?

We explore the implications of Zipf’s law for the understanding of linguistic productivity. Focusing on language acquisition, we show that the item/usage based approach has not been supported by adequate statistical evidence. By contrast, the quantitative properties of a productive grammar can be precisely formulated, and are consistent with even very young children’s language. Moreover, drawin...

The Work of S hmidhuber 1987 - 2002