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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	19
Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models	19
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	16
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	14
Stick dexterity in carrion crows	12
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?	10
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	9
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	9
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	9
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains	8
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	8
Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity	7
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	6
Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution	6
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	6
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	6
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	6
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study	6
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	6
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails	5
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	5
A timely glimpse of memories to come	5
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	5
Place-cell coding in flying birds	5
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	5

Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	5
Focused and distributed: Diverse attentional profiles in pigeon category learning	5
Anticipation of cyclical resource availability in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria): Implications for seed dispersal	5
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	4
When time matters: generalization gradients in delay and trace conditioning procedures	4
Why we should study animal consciousness	4
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	4
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	4
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	4
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan	4
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	3
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?	3
Do marmosets really have names?	3
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows	3
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin	3
Online and in-person stress induction in a quasi-avoidance-based Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task	3
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)	3
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information	3
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	3
Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance	3
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	3
Why might animals remember? A functional framework for episodic memory research in comparative psychology	3
Memory encoded in the interactions of ants	3
Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape	3
Evaluating inhibitory control in captive raccoons (Procyon lotor) using the cylinder task	2
Memory for where and when: pigeons use single-code/default strategy	2
Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin and DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit	2
Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues	2
Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities	2
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	2
Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities	2
Introduction to the special issue honoring Suzanne MacDonald: Truly comparative and incomparable	2
Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants	2
Rats show up to 72 h of significant retention for spatial memory in the radial maze	2
Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg	2
Different memory systems in food-hoarding birds: A response to Pravosudov	2
Can A.I. be a dolphin Doctor Dolittle?	2
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms	2
Disentangling the evolution of cognition: Learning in Cnidaria	2
Quantifying nonmnemonic strategies in two-alternative forced-choice delayed matching and nonmatching-to-position tasks in mice (Mus musculus) using automated video tracking technologies	2
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	2
The influence of pure tacts and intraverbals on the transfer of verbal learning to new stimuli: An experimental study in children	2
Evaluating a four-button computerized gaming system for cognitive engagement in dogs	2
Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory	2
Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons	2
Mechanisms and rules of social learning in crickets	1
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition	1
Behavioral characteristics of rapid visual categorization learning in domestic chicks	1
Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory	1
Differential modulation of freezing and 22-kHz USVs by shock intensity, tone-duration matching, and anxiety levels in rodent fear-conditioning paradigms	1

Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1
Mechanisms of socially facilitated feeding in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)	1
Iterative learning experiments can help elucidate music’s origins	1
Effects of proactive interference on olfactory memory in dogs	1
Cognitive strategies involved in the discrimination of geometric angles	1
Noisy nests: Early-life noise exposure impacts songbird fitness	1
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 exposure	1
Implicit knowledge of words in dogs	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
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks	1
Active and passive waiting in impulsive choice: Effects of fixed-interval and fixed-time delays	1
Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture	1
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees	1
Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion?	1
Pigeons (Columbia livia) use local compared to global spatial information during a traveling salesperson task	1
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system	1
Mice extrapolate temporal information based on previously learned spatiotemporal mappings: An asymmetrical case	1
Early communicative gestures in human and chimpanzee 1-year-olds observed across diverse socioecological settings	1
Remembering as an operant: Effects of instructional control and reinforcement on remembering behavior	1
Error monitoring in rats? We need models	1
Properties of iconic and visuospatial working memory in pigeons and humans using a location change-detection procedure	1
Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation	1
Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus)	1
Behavioral impact of adolescent social isolation stress: A multidimensional assessment in male NMRI mice	1
Additivity of resurgence and spontaneous recovery	1
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli	1
Exploring boundary conditions of the single-code/default strategy in pigeons	1
A Special Issue in honor of Sally Boysen: Studying other minds	1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	1
The order of stimuli matters when learning second-order transitional probabilities	1
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	1
Shared feelings? Affective states and transfer in bumblebees	1
A special issue in honor of the contributions of Professor Nicola S. Clayton FRS	1