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  • BYB Summer Camp Internships: Alex on How to Train Your Cockroach
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    BYB Summer Camp Internships: Alex on How to Train Your Cockroach
    • June 18, 2014
    • by Will Wharton
    I’m Alex, a neuroscience major from the wonderful Michigan State University (GO GREEN!)**, down in Ann Arbor for the summer as an intern with Backyard Brains. I’m working to be a behavior trainer of the cockroach, Periplaneta Americana, through means of operant conditioning. What is operant conditioning? In short, operant conditioning is a way of […]

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