operant conditioning

Brain-Computer Interfaces Race to the Mass Market

May 15, 2019 bsci21 0

Mind-reading technology will allow us control devices with our thoughts from CNBC. Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Alan Pinkerton is a 16 year old high school student in Austin, Texas. He is also […]

bSci21 Exclusive Interview: Dr. Valero-Aguayo’s Brain Control Interface

February 1, 2015 bsci21 0

In 2014, I had the opportunity to attend the European Association for Behavior Analysis conference in Stockholm, Sweden. While there, one talk in particular evoked a great deal of conversation regarding the measurement and analysis […]

Society

4 Fixes to Improve Public Education in High Poverty Schools

February 27, 2017 2

By Paulie Gavoni, Ed.D Guest Author Manny Rodriguez, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer From time to time we hear and read suggestions that all underperforming schools be shut down and underperforming teachers be fired. Coincidentally, we […]

Business/OBM

How Pay for Performance Benefits Your Company

October 13, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates As behavior analysts, our world view is based on the act-in-context. One of the most prevalent contexts that occasion our […]

Lifestyle

Fighting Fair Behavior: What it looks like and it’s positive effects on marriage

February 7, 2018 0

By Justyna Balzar, M.Ed., BCBA Guest Author Recently I came across two different media outlets discussing problem behaviors detrimental to marriage. The first was an article posted on bSci21.org by Dr. Todd Ward titled, “Changing Four […]

ABA Practice

Abduction Prevention in Children with Autism

January 24, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org A recent study by Bergstrom, Najdowski, and Tarbox (2014) in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis successfully taught children with autism how to respond to strangers’ […]

Society

A behavior analyst’s take on dishonesty.

March 5, 2018 1

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates As behavior analysts, we can work to increase and decrease the rate of any behavior. Despite this, some troubling behaviors […]

Society

Crowd Behavior Analysis from the Sky Aims to Prevent Tragedy

July 11, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Computer scientists at Middlebury College are working on a way to improve public safety at large public events through computer vision algorithms that detect anomalies in crowd behavior […]