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

Article	Citations
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice	36
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	19
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	19
Stick dexterity in carrion crows	18
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	16
Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models	15
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	11
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	9
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?	8
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	8
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	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
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains	6
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	6
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	5
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	5
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	5
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	5
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	5
Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution	5
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	5
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	5
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	4

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

Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture	1
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system	1
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms	1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	1
Error monitoring in rats? We need models	1
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli	1
Properties of iconic and visuospatial working memory in pigeons and humans using a location change-detection procedure	1
Early communicative gestures in human and chimpanzee 1-year-olds observed across diverse socioecological settings	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
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition	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
Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion?	1
A Special Issue in honor of Sally Boysen: Studying other minds	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
Mechanisms of socially facilitated feeding in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)	1
Implicit knowledge of words in dogs	1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1
Remembering as an operant: Effects of instructional control and reinforcement on remembering behavior	1
Iterative learning experiments can help elucidate music’s origins	1
Far from the threatening crowd: Generalisation of conditioned threat expectancy and fear in COVID-19 lockdown	1
Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation	1
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Differential modulation of freezing and 22-kHz USVs by shock intensity, tone-duration matching, and anxiety levels in rodent fear-conditioning paradigms	1
Exploring boundary conditions of the single-code/default strategy in pigeons	1
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	1
A special issue in honor of the contributions of Professor Nicola S. Clayton FRS	1
Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities	1
Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus)	1
Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory	1
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	1
Noisy nests: Early-life noise exposure impacts songbird fitness	1
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	1