OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning & Behavior is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice	36
Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models	18
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	18
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	17
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	15
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	14
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	12
Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds	10
A putative social concept in dolphins	8
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	7
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?	7
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	7
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study	7
Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity	6
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	6
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	6
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	5
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	5
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	5
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains	5
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	5
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	5
Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution	5
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	5
Can we build a neuroecology of innovativeness similar to that pioneered by David Sherry for spatial memory?	5

Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	4
Place-cell coding in flying birds	4
Is dogs’ heritable performance in socio-cognitive tasks truly social?	4
A timely glimpse of memories to come	4
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	4
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails	4
Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4
Anticipation of cyclical resource availability in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria): Implications for seed dispersal	4
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	4
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	4
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds	3
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	3
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	3
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	3
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	3
Why we should study animal consciousness	3
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan	3
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	3
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	3
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	3
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?	3
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin	3
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	3
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	3
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	3
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum	2
Do marmosets really have names?	2
Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance	2
Thanks for the multiple memory systems: Introduction to the special issue in honor of David Sherry	2
Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities	2
Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons	2
The influence of pure tacts and intraverbals on the transfer of verbal learning to new stimuli: An experimental study in children	2
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion	2
Rats show up to 72 h of significant retention for spatial memory in the radial maze	2
Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape	2
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	2
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	2
Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin and DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit	2
Different memory systems in food-hoarding birds: A response to Pravosudov	2
Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg	2
Disentangling the evolution of cognition: Learning in Cnidaria	2
Memory for where and when: pigeons use single-code/default strategy	2
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows	2
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information	2
Why might animals remember? A functional framework for episodic memory research in comparative psychology	2
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	2
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)	2
Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues	2
Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants	2
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	2

Michael Domjan and the functional significance of the conditional response	2
Memory encoded in the interactions of ants	2