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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Context, attention, and the switch between habit and goal-direction in behavior	51
Convergent evolution of complex cognition: Insights from the field of avian cognition into the study of self-awareness	22
Comparing pet and detection dogs (Canis familiaris) on two aspects of social cognition	19
Learning in Cnidaria: A systematic review	17
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	13
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum	12
Biotremology in arthropods	11
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	9
String-pulling in the Goffin’s cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana)	9
Rainbow trout discriminate 2-D photographs of conspecifics from distracting stimuli using an innovative operant conditioning device	8
Neuroecology beyond the brain: learning in Echinodermata	7
Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects	7
No preference for prosocial helping behavior in rats with concurrent social interaction opportunities	7
Intermittent access training produces greater motivation for a non-drug reinforcer than long access training	6
Cognitive control of working memory but not familiarity in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)	6
Exploring the impact of coherence (through the presence versus absence of feedback) and levels of derivation on persistent rule-following	6
Who is crying wolf? Seasonal effect on antipredator response to age-specific alarm calls in common ravens, Corvus corax	6
The olfactory capability of dogs to discriminate between different quantities of food	6
It’s not just the animals that are STRANGE	6
Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)	6
Seasonal changes in the hippocampal formation of hoarding and non-hoarding tits	5
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	5
On the evolution of a functional approach to memory	5
Kea, Nestor notabilis, achieve cooperation in dyads, triads, and tetrads when dominants show restraint	5
Pigeons acquire the 1-back task: Implications for implicit versus explicit learning?	4

Social factors in bird-song development: Learning to sing with friends and rivals	4
Temporal decision making: it is all about context	4
Mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze data revisited: Bayesian censored regression	4
Cause, development, function, and evolution: Toward a behavioral ecology of rescue behavior in ants	4
Time-of-day affects the amount rats run during daily sessions in activity wheels	4
Same/different concept learning by primates and birds	4
A comparison of renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition after punishment and extinction	4
Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	4
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	4
Examination of alternative-response discrimination training and resurgence in rats	4
Naturalistic learning and reproduction in ring neck doves (Streptopelia risoria)	3
Towards a resolution of some outstanding issues in transitive research: An empirical test on middle childhood	3
The paradoxical performance by different species on the ephemeral reward task	3
Plasticity in the hippocampal formation of shorebirds during the wintering period: Stereological analysis of parvalbumin neurons in Actitis macularius	3
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	3
Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes	3
Directed retreat and navigational mechanisms in trail following Formica obscuripes	3
Estimating on the fly: The approximate number system in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)	3
Evidence of learning and memory in the juvenile dwarf cuttlefish Sepia bandensis	3
Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies	3
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence? A discussion	3
Age-related reduction of hemispheric asymmetry by pigeons: A behavioral and FDG-PET imaging investigation of visual discrimination	3
Resolving conflict between aversive and appetitive learning of views: how ants shift to a new route during navigation	3
Social diffusion of new foraging techniques in the Southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)	2
A different perspective on avian hippocampus function: Visual-spatial perception	2
Taking shortcuts in the study of cognitive maps	2
Striatal D2: Where habits and newly learned actions meet	2
Mechanisms of within-session sequential behavior in pigeons	2
Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships	2
Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure	2
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	2
Bodily memory in slime mold	2
Following the human point: Research with nonhuman animals since Povinelli, Nelson, and Boysen (1990)	2
Intra-individual variation in the songs of humpback whales suggests they are sonically searching for conspecifics	2
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	2
Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain	2
Separating conscious and unconscious perception in animals	2
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	2
The conscious crow	2
Are there sex differences in spatial reference memory in the Morris water maze? A large-sample experimental study	2
Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)	2
Nonhuman primates learn adjacent dependencies but fail to learn nonadjacent dependencies in a statistical learning task with a salient cue	2
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	2
Learning when to wait and when to act	2
Constraints on vocal production learning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates)	2
Innovative problem solving in macaws	2
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	2
The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons	2
Conspecific presence, but not pilferage, influences pinyon jays’ (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) caching behavior	2