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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice	69
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	31
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	17
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	16
Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds	15
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	10
A putative social concept in dolphins	10
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	10
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	8
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
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study	6
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	6
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	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
Can we build a neuroecology of innovativeness similar to that pioneered by David Sherry for spatial memory?	5
Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity	5
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	5
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	5
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	5
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	5
Assessing the inhibitory properties of a latent inhibitor in flavor-aversion learning	5
Is dogs’ heritable performance in socio-cognitive tasks truly social?	5

Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4
A timely glimpse of memories to come	4
Abstract knowledge gets concrete in the hippocampus	4
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails	4
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	4
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	4
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	4
Place-cell coding in flying birds	4
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	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
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	3
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	3
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	3
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	3
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	3
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	3
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?	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
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	3
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	3
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan	3
Why we should study animal consciousness	3
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	3
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information	2
Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape	2
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin	2
Rats show up to 72 h of significant retention for spatial memory in the radial maze	2
Memory encoded in the interactions of ants	2
Michael Domjan and the functional significance of the conditional response	2
Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues	2
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum	2
Why might animals remember? A functional framework for episodic memory research in comparative psychology	2
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows	2
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion	2
Disentangling the evolution of cognition: Learning in Cnidaria	2
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	2
Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin and DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit	2
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	2
Do marmosets really have names?	2
Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance	2
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)	2
Thanks for the multiple memory systems: Introduction to the special issue in honor of David Sherry	2
Memory for where and when: pigeons use single-code/default strategy	2
Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants	2
Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory	1
Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture	1
Time will tell: Temporal processing in the sexual behavior system	1
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	1

Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	1
Visual alternation by pigeons: Learning to select or learning to avoid	1
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	1
Cold noses provide hot take on social cognition	1
Iterative learning experiments can help elucidate music’s origins	1
Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities	1
Early communicative gestures in human and chimpanzee 1-year-olds observed across diverse socioecological settings	1
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks	1
Testing the memory reconsolidation hypothesis in a fear extinction paradigm: The effects of ecological and arbitrary stimuli	1
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees	1
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	1
Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?	1
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Different memory systems in food-hoarding birds: A response to Pravosudov	1
I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition	1
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	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
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
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms	1
Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory	1
Exploring boundary conditions of the single-code/default strategy in pigeons	1
Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg	1
Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion?	1
Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons	1
Far from the threatening crowd: Generalisation of conditioned threat expectancy and fear in COVID-19 lockdown	1
A Special Issue in honor of Sally Boysen: Studying other minds	1