CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Venezuela
graduate at Psicologia from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (1995), master's at Psychology from Universidade de São Paulo (2000) and ph.d. at Psychology from Universidade de São Paulo (2005). He is currently professor doutor at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Psychology, acting on the following subjects: drug dependency, experimenatl animal models of human behavior and interaction between operant and pavlovian learning. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In an experiment developed in our laboratory we studied the effects of training and extinction on the emergence of creative problem solving (Rodrigues & Garcia-Mijares, in preparation).For this, a set of experimental virtual environments was built in the Portal 2 videogame,which presented a series of problems. Survey results indicated that while extinction and training combined increased …
According to the Robert Epstein's Generativity Theory, the extinction is a necessary process for problem solving through insight to occur; however, there is no data to corroborate this proposal. The present project proposes an experiment with humans that intends to evaluate extinction function on previously trained responses in problem solving tasks. For this, 44 participants, allocated r…
Studies reporting that repeated drug self-administration produces behavioral and genetic changes different from those produced by repeated passive administration of the same drug have been very important to understand mechanisms underlying drug abuse. Research in the area have focused on changes produced by drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine, not existing publications reporting behavio…
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Creativity has been repeatedly linked to operant behavioral variability and insightful problem-solving behavior. However, little research has been done to study the interaction between those two phenomena. This research aims to analyze the relationship between operant behavioral variability and its effects on the participant's performance in a spatial problem-solving situation, by develop…
Studies reporting that repeated drug self-administration produces behavioral and physiological changes different from those produced by repeated passive administration of the same drug have been very important to understand mechanisms underlying drug abuse. This project main objective is to compare cocaine seeking and cocaine self-administration behaviors induced by a drug-related stimulu…
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