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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Context, attention, and the switch between habit and goal-direction in behavior	43
Convergent evolution of complex cognition: Insights from the field of avian cognition into the study of self-awareness	21
Learning in Cnidaria: A systematic review	17
Comparing pet and detection dogs (Canis familiaris) on two aspects of social cognition	16
Awareness of danger inside the egg: Evidence of innate and learned predator recognition in cuttlefish embryos	14
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum	11
Biotremology in arthropods	11
Rainbow trout discriminate 2-D photographs of conspecifics from distracting stimuli using an innovative operant conditioning device	8
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	8
Asking for help: Do dogs take into account prior experiences with people?	8
Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects	7
Exploring the impact of coherence (through the presence versus absence of feedback) and levels of derivation on persistent rule-following	6
Cognitive control of working memory but not familiarity in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)	6
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	6
It’s not just the animals that are STRANGE	6
Neuroecology beyond the brain: learning in Echinodermata	6
String-pulling in the Goffin’s cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana)	6
The midsession reversal task: A theoretical analysis	6
Who is crying wolf? Seasonal effect on antipredator response to age-specific alarm calls in common ravens, Corvus corax	6
The olfactory capability of dogs to discriminate between different quantities of food	6
No preference for prosocial helping behavior in rats with concurrent social interaction opportunities	5
Intermittent access training produces greater motivation for a non-drug reinforcer than long access training	5
Seasonal changes in the hippocampal formation of hoarding and non-hoarding tits	5
Mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze data revisited: Bayesian censored regression	4
Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4

Social factors in bird-song development: Learning to sing with friends and rivals	4
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	4
Examination of alternative-response discrimination training and resurgence in rats	4
On the evolution of a functional approach to memory	4
Time-of-day affects the amount rats run during daily sessions in activity wheels	4
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	4
Pigeons acquire the 1-back task: Implications for implicit versus explicit learning?	4
Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)	4
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	4
Resolving conflict between aversive and appetitive learning of views: how ants shift to a new route during navigation	3
Estimating on the fly: The approximate number system in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)	3
Temporal decision making: it is all about context	3
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence? A discussion	3
Cause, development, function, and evolution: Toward a behavioral ecology of rescue behavior in ants	3
Kea, Nestor notabilis, achieve cooperation in dyads, triads, and tetrads when dominants show restraint	3
Same/different concept learning by primates and birds	3
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	3
Directed retreat and navigational mechanisms in trail following Formica obscuripes	3
The paradoxical performance by different species on the ephemeral reward task	3
Plasticity in the hippocampal formation of shorebirds during the wintering period: Stereological analysis of parvalbumin neurons in Actitis macularius	3
A dimensional summation account of polymorphous category learning	3
Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies	3
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	2
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	2
Naturalistic learning and reproduction in ring neck doves (Streptopelia risoria)	2
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	2
Age-related reduction of hemispheric asymmetry by pigeons: A behavioral and FDG-PET imaging investigation of visual discrimination	2
A different perspective on avian hippocampus function: Visual-spatial perception	2
Taking shortcuts in the study of cognitive maps	2
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	2
Separating conscious and unconscious perception in animals	2
Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain	2
A comparison of renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition after punishment and extinction	2
The conscious crow	2
Conspecific presence, but not pilferage, influences pinyon jays’ (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) caching behavior	2
Social diffusion of new foraging techniques in the Southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)	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
Learning when to wait and when to act	2
Constraints on vocal production learning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates)	2
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	2
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	2
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	2
Are there sex differences in spatial reference memory in the Morris water maze? A large-sample experimental study	2
Bodily memory in slime mold	2
Towards a resolution of some outstanding issues in transitive research: An empirical test on middle childhood	2
Nonhuman primates learn adjacent dependencies but fail to learn nonadjacent dependencies in a statistical learning task with a salient cue	2
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	2
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	2
Innovative problem solving in macaws	2

Evidence of learning and memory in the juvenile dwarf cuttlefish Sepia bandensis	2
Auditory sentence comprehension in children with cochlear implants after simple visual discrimination training with specific auditory-visual consequences	1
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion	1
Orangutans and the evolution of sharp stone tools	1
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	1
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	1
How to turn the corner: Discrimination of path shapes in rats	1
The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map	1
Temporal foundations of episodic memory	1
Cross-modal tactile-visual neural representations in bumble bees	1
1-Back reinforcement symbolic-matching by humans: How do they learn it?	1
Still-face effect in domestic dogs: comparing untrained with trained and animal assisted interventions dogs	1
Can a dog be spontaneous?	1
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli	1
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system	1
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks	1
Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal?	1
Thinking of learning phenomena as instances of relational behavior	1
Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?	1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	1
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	1
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	1
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition	1
With a little help from my (Psittacidae) friends	1
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds	1
A timely glimpse of memories to come	1
The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons	1
Caffeine-based flavor preference conditioning in the rat	1
The lack of validity hinders research in animal cognition	1
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees	1
Dogs demonstrate memory of incidentally encoded information	1
Effect of repetition of vertical and horizontal routes on navigation performance in Australian bull ants	1
Appetitive conditioning task in a shuttle box and its comparison with the active avoidance paradigm	1
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	1
Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes	1
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	1