Learning & Behavior

Papers
(The median citation count of Learning & Behavior is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Constraints on vocal production learning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates)63
The olfactory capability of dogs to discriminate between different quantities of food22
A special issue honoring Ken Cheng: navigating animal minds13
Cold noses provide hot take on social cognition10
Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds9
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches7
Properties of iconic and visuospatial working memory in pigeons and humans using a location change-detection procedure7
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds7
The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map7
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)7
Separating conscious and unconscious perception in animals5
Rearing condition and willingness to approach a stranger explain differences in point following performance in wolves and dogs5
Evidence for object–place binding in pigeons in a sequence-learning procedure5
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships5
A special issue in honor of Irene Pepperberg: The chemist of comparative cognition5
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice5
Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons4
Remembering as an operant: Effects of instructional control and reinforcement on remembering behavior4
Complex relationship between response rate and preference in pigeons: Williams (1992) revisited4
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?4
Some like it “local”: A review of hierarchical processing in non-human animals4
Different memory systems in food-hoarding birds: A response to Pravosudov4
Implicit knowledge of words in dogs4
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward4
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task4
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons4
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food4
Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg4
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders4
Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain4
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior4
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan3
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation3
A search pattern for the engram3
Error monitoring in rats? We need models3
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin3
Visual alternation by pigeons: Learning to select or learning to avoid3
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning3
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet3
Noisy nests: Early-life noise exposure impacts songbird fitness3
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition3
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study3
Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?2
Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory2
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?2
Temporal decision making: it is all about context2
Time perception and pain: Can a temporal illusion reduce the intensity of pain?2
Response to Hansen Wheat et al.: Additional analysis further supports the early emergence of cooperative communication in dogs compared to wolves raised with more human exposure2
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists2
Another look at the extinction of conditioned flavor preferences: Amount of training and tests for spontaneous recovery2
How to turn the corner: Discrimination of path shapes in rats2
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees2
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes2
An operant analog of food caching in the pigeon (Columba livia)2
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms2
A putative social concept in dolphins2
Learning when to wait and when to act2
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells2
Same/different concept learning by primates and birds2
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?2
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?2
Hummingbirds modify their routes to avoid a poor location1
Beyond the mark: Signatures of self-recognition in fish1
A Special Issue in honor of Sally Boysen: Studying other minds1
Do marmosets really have names?1
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning1
Kea, Nestor notabilis, achieve cooperation in dyads, triads, and tetrads when dominants show restraint1
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans1
A different perspective on avian hippocampus function: Visual-spatial perception1
Copy rats: Learning by observation during a foraging task by rats1
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)1
Plasticity in the hippocampal formation of shorebirds during the wintering period: Stereological analysis of parvalbumin neurons in Actitis macularius1
Neuroecology beyond the brain: learning in Echinodermata1
Why we should study animal consciousness1
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum1
Motivated to time: Effects of reinforcer devaluation and opportunity cost on interval timing1
Sexual selection for single song repertoires1
Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape1
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats1
Bumblebees show capacity for behavioral traditions1
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience1
Vocal flexibility in a eusocial rodent1
Why might animals remember? A functional framework for episodic memory research in comparative psychology1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?1
Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities1
Baboon pragmatics: Meta-cognition, meta-communication or something else?1
Ants find shortest paths using simple, local rules1
Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion?1
Mechanisms and rules of social learning in crickets1
Octopus toss-up: Is debris throwing driven by intent?1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics1
Context, attention, and the switch between habit and goal-direction in behavior1
Assessing the inhibitory properties of a latent inhibitor in flavor-aversion learning1
Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)1
Intra-individual variation in the songs of humpback whales suggests they are sonically searching for conspecifics1
Exploring boundary conditions of the single-code/default strategy in pigeons1
Thinking of learning phenomena as instances of relational behavior1
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains1
Directed retreat and navigational mechanisms in trail following Formica obscuripes0
Early communicative gestures in human and chimpanzee 1-year-olds observed across diverse socioecological settings0
Are there sex differences in spatial reference memory in the Morris water maze? A large-sample experimental study0
Generalized, cross-modal, and incrementing non-matching-to-sample in rats0
Chatting bats think alike0
Temporal foundations of episodic memory0
Pigeons acquire the 1-back task: Implications for implicit versus explicit learning?0
No evidence of real-world equivalence in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) categorizing visually diverse images of natural stimuli presented on LCD monitors0
No preference for prosocial helping behavior in rats with concurrent social interaction opportunities0
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)0
Examination of hierarchical form perception in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus)0
On the evolution of a functional approach to memory0
Implications of wild cockatoos manufacturing and using tools0
Correction to: Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats0
Thanks for the multiple memory systems: Introduction to the special issue in honor of David Sherry0
Mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze data revisited: Bayesian censored regression0
Correction: Measuring spontaneous episodic future thinking in children: Challenges and opportunities0
Naturalistic learning and reproduction in ring neck doves (Streptopelia risoria)0
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each0
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy0
Watched or not: Overimitation in dogs under different attentional states0
Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture0
Effects of proactive interference on olfactory memory in dogs0
Disentangling the evolution of cognition: Learning in Cnidaria0
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks0
Going back to “basics”: Harlow’s learning set task with wolves and dogs0
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure0
Orangutans and the evolution of sharp stone tools0
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system0
Bodily memory in slime mold0
Ants on featureless saltpans build tall nest mounds0
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows0
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)0
A timely glimpse of memories to come0
Just keep exploring: Genetics of fish niche adaptation0
Does captivity alter problem-solving behavior in Goffin’s cockatoos?0
Place-cell coding in flying birds0
Age-related reduction of hemispheric asymmetry by pigeons: A behavioral and FDG-PET imaging investigation of visual discrimination0
Examination of alternative-response discrimination training and resurgence in rats0
To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals0
Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail0
Social diffusion of new foraging techniques in the Southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)0
Effect of repetition of vertical and horizontal routes on navigation performance in Australian bull ants0
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli0
Good news is better than bad news, but bad news is not worse than no news0
A comparison of renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition after punishment and extinction0
The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons0
The conscious crow0
Is dogs’ heritable performance in socio-cognitive tasks truly social?0
Action slips in food choices: A measure of habits and goal-directed control0
Giving time a chance in the midsession reversal task0
Memory and the value of social information in foraging bumble bees0
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict0
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)0
Abstract knowledge gets concrete in the hippocampus0
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates0
Far from the threatening crowd: Generalisation of conditioned threat expectancy and fear in COVID-19 lockdown0
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence? A discussion0
Seasonal changes in the hippocampal formation of hoarding and non-hoarding tits0
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)0
Extinction in multiple contexts reduces the return of extinguished responses: A multilevel meta-analysis0
Rats show up to 72 h of significant retention for spatial memory in the radial maze0
Michael Domjan and the functional significance of the conditional response0
Caffeine-based flavor preference conditioning in the rat0
Following the human point: Research with nonhuman animals since Povinelli, Nelson, and Boysen (1990)0
Are dogs indeed susceptible to Kanizsa’s triangle illusion?0
Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory0
Cause, development, function, and evolution: Toward a behavioral ecology of rescue behavior in ants0
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails0
Limits of flexibility and associative learning in pigeons0
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life0
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory0
Taste aversion learning during successive negative contrast0
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs0
Memory for where and when: pigeons use single-code/default strategy0
Inhibition and paradoxical choice0
Active and passive waiting in impulsive choice: Effects of fixed-interval and fixed-time delays0
Can we build a neuroecology of innovativeness similar to that pioneered by David Sherry for spatial memory?0
Iterative learning experiments can help elucidate music’s origins0
Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes0
Resolving conflict between aversive and appetitive learning of views: how ants shift to a new route during navigation0
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition0
Measuring spontaneous episodic future thinking in children: Challenges and opportunities0
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion0
Learning in the honey bee waggle dance0
Assessing preferences for adult versus juvenile features in young animals: Newly hatched chicks spontaneously approach red and large stimuli0
Still-face effect in domestic dogs: comparing untrained with trained and animal assisted interventions dogs0
Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal?0
Longer operant lever-press duration requirements induce fewer but longer response bouts in rats0
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations0
Validation of a rodent model of episodic memory replay0
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information0
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”0
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially0
What evidence can validate a dog training method?0
Cognitive flexibility in the wild: Individual differences in reversal learning are explained primarily by proactive interference, not by sampling strategies, in two passerine bird species0
The lack of validity hinders research in animal cognition0
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks0
Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation0
Nonhuman primates learn adjacent dependencies but fail to learn nonadjacent dependencies in a statistical learning task with a salient cue0
Intermittent access training produces greater motivation for a non-drug reinforcer than long access training0
Are crows smart? Let them count the ways0
“Monkeying around” together facilitates problem solving0
The order of stimuli matters when learning second-order transitional probabilities0
Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants0
1-Back reinforcement symbolic-matching by humans: How do they learn it?0
0.087283849716187