Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Robbins, T.W.
• Costa, Rui M.

Titel

Habits

Ist Teil von

• Current biology, 2017-11, Vol.27 (22), p.R1200-R1206

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What is a habit? One problem with the concept of habit has been that virtually everyone has their own ideas of what is meant by such a term. Whilst not eschewing folk psychology, it is useful to re-examine dictionary definitions of ‘habit’. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines habit as “a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up” and also “an automatic reaction to a specific situation”. The latter, reassuringly, is not too far from what has come to be known as stimulus–response theory. In this Primer, Robbins and Costa explore the concept of habits, how they relate to other types of learned behavior, their relevance to healthy as well as pathological behavior, and their possible neural basis.