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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Stick dexterity in carrion crows	19
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	19
Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models	16
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	13
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	12
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?	9
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	9
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study	8
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	8
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	8
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	8
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	7
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains	6
Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity	6
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	6
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	6
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	6
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	5
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
Place-cell coding in flying birds	5
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	5
Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution	5
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	5
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	5

Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	5
Focused and distributed: Diverse attentional profiles in pigeon category learning	5
A timely glimpse of memories to come	5
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	5
Anticipation of cyclical resource availability in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria): Implications for seed dispersal	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
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	4
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	4
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	4
When time matters: generalization gradients in delay and trace conditioning procedures	4
Do marmosets really have names?	3
Why might animals remember? A functional framework for episodic memory research in comparative psychology	3
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?	3
On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)	3
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	3
Why we should study animal consciousness	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
Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape	3
Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows	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
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information	3
Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants	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
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	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
What have we learned from research on the “geometric module”?	2
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	2
Evaluating inhibitory control in captive raccoons (Procyon lotor) using the cylinder task	2
Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues	2
Memory encoded in the interactions of ants	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
Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities	2
Multiple cache recovery task cannot determine memory mechanisms	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
Rats show up to 72 h of significant retention for spatial memory in the radial maze	2
Partial reinforcement effects on acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion	2
Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons	2
Different memory systems in food-hoarding birds: A response to Pravosudov	2
Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities	2
Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg	2
Introduction to the special issue honoring Suzanne MacDonald: Truly comparative and incomparable	2
Behavioral impact of adolescent social isolation stress: A multidimensional assessment in male NMRI mice	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
Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees	1
Early communicative gestures in human and chimpanzee 1-year-olds observed across diverse socioecological settings	1
Noisy nests: Early-life noise exposure impacts songbird fitness	1
The order of stimuli matters when learning second-order transitional probabilities	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
Mice extrapolate temporal information based on previously learned spatiotemporal mappings: An asymmetrical case	1
Implicit knowledge of words in dogs	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
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	1
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks	1
Additivity of resurgence and spontaneous recovery	1
Challenging stereotypes improves understanding of canine behavioral genetics	1
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	1
Iterative learning experiments can help elucidate music’s origins	1
Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation	1
Remembering as an operant: Effects of instructional control and reinforcement on remembering behavior	1
Effects of proactive interference on olfactory memory in dogs	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
Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture	1
Far from the threatening crowd: Generalisation of conditioned threat expectancy and fear in COVID-19 lockdown	1
Active and passive waiting in impulsive choice: Effects of fixed-interval and fixed-time delays	1
Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus)	1
Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each	1
Mechanisms of socially facilitated feeding in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)	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
Behavioral characteristics of rapid visual categorization learning in domestic chicks	1
A special issue in honor of the contributions of Professor Nicola S. Clayton FRS	1
Shared feelings? Affective states and transfer in bumblebees	1
Mechanisms and rules of social learning in crickets	1
Cognitive strategies involved in the discrimination of geometric angles	1
Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory	1
Unbalanced visual cues do not affect search precision at the nest in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	1
Differential modulation of freezing and 22-kHz USVs by shock intensity, tone-duration matching, and anxiety levels in rodent fear-conditioning paradigms	1