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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice	66
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	31
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	16
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	15
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	13
Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds	10
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	10
A putative social concept in dolphins	9
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	7
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?	7
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains	7
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	6
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	5
Assessing the inhibitory properties of a latent inhibitor in flavor-aversion learning	5
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study	5
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	5
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	5
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	5
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	5
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	5
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	4
Is dogs’ heritable performance in socio-cognitive tasks truly social?	4
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	4
A timely glimpse of memories to come	4
Can we build a neuroecology of innovativeness similar to that pioneered by David Sherry for spatial memory?	4

Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	4
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	4
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	4
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails	4
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	3
Abstract knowledge gets concrete in the hippocampus	3
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	3
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	3
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	3
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	3
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	3
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	3
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	3
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	3
Place-cell coding in flying birds	3
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	3
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	3
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds	3
Memory for where and when: pigeons use single-code/default strategy	2
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion	2
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows	2
Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance	2
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	2
Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape	2
Rats show up to 72 h of significant retention for spatial memory in the radial maze	2
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum	2
Thanks for the multiple memory systems: Introduction to the special issue in honor of David Sherry	2
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	2
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)	2
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin	2
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?	2
Why we should study animal consciousness	2
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information	2
Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants	2
Michael Domjan and the functional significance of the conditional response	2
Memory encoded in the interactions of ants	2
Why might animals remember? A functional framework for episodic memory research in comparative psychology	2
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	2
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan	2
Do marmosets really have names?	2
Different memory systems in food-hoarding birds: A response to Pravosudov	1
Visual alternation by pigeons: Learning to select or learning to avoid	1
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Early communicative gestures in human and chimpanzee 1-year-olds observed across diverse socioecological settings	1
Iterative learning experiments can help elucidate music’s origins	1
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	1
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks	1
Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory	1
Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory	1

Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities	1
Cold noses provide hot take on social cognition	1
Disentangling the evolution of cognition: Learning in Cnidaria	1
Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg	1
Exploring boundary conditions of the single-code/default strategy in pigeons	1
Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation	1
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition	1
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli	1
Active and passive waiting in impulsive choice: Effects of fixed-interval and fixed-time delays	1
Differential modulation of freezing and 22-kHz USVs by shock intensity, tone-duration matching, and anxiety levels in rodent fear-conditioning paradigms	1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees	1
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	1
Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons	1
A Special Issue in honor of Sally Boysen: Studying other minds	1
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	1
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	1
Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion?	1
Far from the threatening crowd: Generalisation of conditioned threat expectancy and fear in COVID-19 lockdown	1
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	1
Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture	1
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system	1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	1
Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?	1
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms	1
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	1