OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning & Behavior is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice	36
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	19
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	19
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	18
Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models	15
Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds	15
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	12
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	10
A putative social concept in dolphins	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
Differential effect of training impure tacts versus pure tacts plus intraverbal on the emergence of new verbal operants: A conceptual and methodological study	7
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	7
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	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
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	5
Divergence in bonobo and chimpanzee social life	5
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	5
Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats	5
Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution	5
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	5
Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning	5
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	5

Is dogs’ heritable performance in socio-cognitive tasks truly social?	5
State-transition-free reinforcement learning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	4
Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	4
A timely glimpse of memories to come	4
Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs	4
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	4
Place-cell coding in flying birds	4
Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail	4
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	4
Anticipation of cyclical resource availability in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria): Implications for seed dispersal	4
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails	4
A model for recovery-from-extinction effects in Pavlovian conditioning and exposure therapy	3
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	3
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	3
Why we should study animal consciousness	3
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin	3
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds	3
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	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
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
Texas field crickets (Gryllus texensis) use visual cues to place learn but perform poorly when intra- and extra-maze cues conflict	3
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	3
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	3
Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance	3
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan	3