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 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
A putative social concept in dolphins	10
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	10
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	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
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
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	6
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
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	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
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
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
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
Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information	2