ABSTRACT
My recently published book, Brain and Perception: Holonomy and Structure in Figural Processing (Pribram, 1991), attempts to do this for the gap between a stimulating environment and the response of an organism. In this chapter I address the other of the gaps in the behavioral account that Skinner has identified: the gap between the consequences of actions and the resulting change in behavior. Essentially, this gap addresses the issues that occupied psychology for decades under the heading learning theory. Mostly such theory was couched in functional descriptive terms, that is, in terms of input-output, stimulus-response relations.
