OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning & Behavior is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Context, attention, and the switch between habit and goal-direction in behavior	59
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum	22
Learning in Cnidaria: A systematic review	20
String-pulling in the Goffin’s cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana)	15
Cognitive flexibility in the wild: Individual differences in reversal learning are explained primarily by proactive interference, not by sampling strategies, in two passerine bird species	13
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	10
Resolving conflict between aversive and appetitive learning of views: how ants shift to a new route during navigation	9
Rainbow trout discriminate 2-D photographs of conspecifics from distracting stimuli using an innovative operant conditioning device	9
No preference for prosocial helping behavior in rats with concurrent social interaction opportunities	7
The olfactory capability of dogs to discriminate between different quantities of food	7
Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)	7
Intermittent access training produces greater motivation for a non-drug reinforcer than long access training	7
Neuroecology beyond the brain: learning in Echinodermata	7
Who is crying wolf? Seasonal effect on antipredator response to age-specific alarm calls in common ravens, Corvus corax	6
Seasonal changes in the hippocampal formation of hoarding and non-hoarding tits	5
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	5
Examination of alternative-response discrimination training and resurgence in rats	5
On the evolution of a functional approach to memory	5
A comparison of renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition after punishment and extinction	5
Kea, Nestor notabilis, achieve cooperation in dyads, triads, and tetrads when dominants show restraint	5
Mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze data revisited: Bayesian censored regression	4
Pigeons acquire the 1-back task: Implications for implicit versus explicit learning?	4
Age-related reduction of hemispheric asymmetry by pigeons: A behavioral and FDG-PET imaging investigation of visual discrimination	4
Same/different concept learning by primates and birds	4
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	4

Are there sex differences in spatial reference memory in the Morris water maze? A large-sample experimental study	4
Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4
Cause, development, function, and evolution: Toward a behavioral ecology of rescue behavior in ants	4
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	4
Temporal foundations of episodic memory	4
Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes	4
Directed retreat and navigational mechanisms in trail following Formica obscuripes	4
Temporal decision making: it is all about context	4
The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map	4
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	3
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence? A discussion	3
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	3
A different perspective on avian hippocampus function: Visual-spatial perception	3
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	3
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	3
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	3
Naturalistic learning and reproduction in ring neck doves (Streptopelia risoria)	3
Estimating on the fly: The approximate number system in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)	3
Plasticity in the hippocampal formation of shorebirds during the wintering period: Stereological analysis of parvalbumin neurons in Actitis macularius	3
Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies	3
Conspecific presence, but not pilferage, influences pinyon jays’ (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) caching behavior	3
Social diffusion of new foraging techniques in the Southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)	3
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	3
Learning when to wait and when to act	3
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli	2
Bodily memory in slime mold	2
Hummingbirds modify their routes to avoid a poor location	2
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	2
Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain	2
Constraints on vocal production learning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates)	2
Far from the threatening crowd: Generalisation of conditioned threat expectancy and fear in COVID-19 lockdown	2
The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons	2
Caffeine-based flavor preference conditioning in the rat	2
Nonhuman primates learn adjacent dependencies but fail to learn nonadjacent dependencies in a statistical learning task with a salient cue	2
Taking shortcuts in the study of cognitive maps	2
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	2
Separating conscious and unconscious perception in animals	2
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	2
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	2
Following the human point: Research with nonhuman animals since Povinelli, Nelson, and Boysen (1990)	2
Intra-individual variation in the songs of humpback whales suggests they are sonically searching for conspecifics	2
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	2
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	2
Innovative problem solving in macaws	2
The conscious crow	2
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	1
1-Back reinforcement symbolic-matching by humans: How do they learn it?	1
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	1
Still-face effect in domestic dogs: comparing untrained with trained and animal assisted interventions dogs	1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1

Are dogs indeed susceptible to Kanizsa’s triangle illusion?	1
Thinking of learning phenomena as instances of relational behavior	1
The lack of validity hinders research in animal cognition	1
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms	1
Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal?	1
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	1
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	1
Longer operant lever-press duration requirements induce fewer but longer response bouts in rats	1
Effect of repetition of vertical and horizontal routes on navigation performance in Australian bull ants	1
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	1
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	1
Inhibition and paradoxical choice	1
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	1
Going back to “basics”: Harlow’s learning set task with wolves and dogs	1
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees	1
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows	1
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	1
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system	1
Dogs demonstrate memory of incidentally encoded information	1
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds	1
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition	1
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	1
A timely glimpse of memories to come	1
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)	1
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion	1
Beyond the mark: Signatures of self-recognition in fish	1
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks	1
How to turn the corner: Discrimination of path shapes in rats	1
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?	1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	1
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	1