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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Pavlovian processes may produce contrast leading to bias and suboptimal choice	73
Narrative framing may increase human suboptimal choice behavior	34
Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches	18
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward	16
Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task	16
Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds	11
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food	11
Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models	11
A putative social concept in dolphins	9
Taming the boojum: Being theoretical about peculiarities of learning	8
Same as it ever was: Bird nest (a)symmetry?	7
Investigating boundary-geometry use by whip spiders (Phrynus marginemaculatus) during goal-directed navigation	7
What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?	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
If Proust had whiskers: Recalling locations with smells	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
Effects of methamphetamine on delay discounting in rats using concurrent chains	5
Willingness to produce disadvantageous outcomes in cooperative tasks is modulated by recent experience	5
Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution	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
Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates	5
Assessing the inhibitory properties of a latent inhibitor in flavor-aversion learning	5
A deeper understanding of noise effects on cetaceans	5
Is dogs’ heritable performance in socio-cognitive tasks truly social?	5

Object permanence in rooks (Corvus frugilegus): Individual differences and behavioral considerations	4
Space, feature, and risk sensitivity in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Broadening the conversation on the role of the avian hippocampus in memory	4
Larger on the right: Honeybees represent quantities spatially	4
Early-life group size influences response inhibition, but not the learning of it, in Japanese quails	4
Abstract knowledge gets concrete in the hippocampus	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
Effects of early social experience on sexual behavior in Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica)	4
Can we build a neuroecology of innovativeness similar to that pioneered by David Sherry for spatial memory?	4
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
Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders	3
“Cooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee heeeerrrrrreeeee . . . . Momma dolphin has something to say”	3
Interaction of memory systems is controlled by context in both food-storing and non-storing birds	3
Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists	3
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition	3
Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?	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
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?	3
Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin	3
The Wild Man in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue in honor of Michael Domjan	3
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	3
Assessing human performance during contingency changes and extinction tests in reversal-learning tasks	3
Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes	3
Why we should study animal consciousness	3
Examining disgust learning through category conditioning: Evidence from trial-unique presentations and oculomotor avoidance	3