Publications 

Leising, K. J., Wong, J., Waldmann, M. R., & Blaisdell, A. P. (in press). The special status of actions in causal reasoning in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (PDF).

Badelt, S. W., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2008). Capacitive sensors for detecting proximity and response. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 613-621. (PDF).

Leising, K. J., Sawa, K., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2007). Temporal integration in Pavlovian apetitive conditioning in rats. Learning & Behavior, 35, 11-18. (PDF).

Waldmann, M. R., Hagmayer, Y., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2006). Beyond the information given: Causal models of learning and reasoning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 307-311. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Sawa, K., Leising, K. J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2006). Causal reasoning in rats. Science, 311, 1020-1022. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5763/1020?ijkey=j8OjpRLgduXHQ&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
 

Cook, R. G., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2006). Short-term item memory in successive same-different discriminations. Behavioural Processes, 72, 255-264. (PDF). 

Nakajima, S., Takahashi, K., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2006). An assessment of context-specificity of the CS-preexposure effect in Pavlovian excitatory and inhibitory conditioning. Behavioural Processes 73, 84-91. (PDF).

Sawa, K., Leising, K. J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2005). Sensory-preconditioning in spatial learning using a touch screen task in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 368-375. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P. & Cook, R. G. (2005). Two-item same-different concept learning in pigeons. Learning & Behavior, 33, 67-77. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., & Cook, R. G. (2005). Integration of spatial maps in pigeons. Animal Cognition, 8, 7-16. (PDF).

Roper, K. L., Chaponis, D. M., & Blaisdell. A. P. (2005). Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1005-1010. (PDF).

Cook, R. G., Levison, D. G., Gillett, S., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2005). Capacity and limits of associative memory in pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 350-358. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P. (2005). Mechanism through methodology: No madness in the method. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 18, 23-27. (PDF).

Denniston, J. C., Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (2004). Temporal coding in conditioned inhibition: Analysis of associative structure of inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30, 190-202. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P. (2003). The S-R information stream: Where's the filter? Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 38, 146-165. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P. (2003). Proteus caught in a (neural) net. Review of Animal learning and cognition: A neural network approach. Nestor A. Schmajuk. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 47, 229-234. (PDF).

Denniston, J. C., Savastano, H. I., Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Cue competition as a retrieval deficit. Learning and Motivation, 34, 1-31. (PDF).

Chang, R. C., Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Backward conditioning: Mediation by the context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior, Processes, 29, 171-183. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (2001). Conditioned inhibition produced by extinction-mediated recovery from the relative stimulus validity effect: A test of acquisition and performance models of empirical retrospective revaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 27, 48-58. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Denniston, J. C., & Miller, R. R. (2001). Recovery from the overexpectation effect: Contrasting performance-focused and acquisition-focused models of retrospective revaluation. Animal Learning & Behavior, 29, 367-380.(PDF).

Cook, R. G., Shaw, R., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2001). Dynamic object perception by pigeons: Discrimination of action in video presentations. Animal Cognition, 4, 137-146. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Denniston, J. C., Savastano, H. I., & Miller, R. R. (2000). Counterconditioning of an overshadowed cue attenuates overshadowing of aversive associations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 26, 74-86. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Denniston, J. C., & Miller, R. R. (1999). Posttraining shifts in the overshadowing stimulus-unconditioned stimulus interval alleviates the overshadowing deficit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 25, 18-27.(PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Gunther, L. G., & Miller, R. R. (1999). Recovery from blocking achieved by extinguishing the blocking CS. Animal Learning & Behavior, 27, 63-76. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Savastano, H. I., & Miller, R. R. (1999). Overshadowing of explicitly unpaired conditioned inhibition is disrupted by preexposure to the overshadowed inhibitor. Animal Learning & Behavior, 27, 346-357. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Bristol, A. S., Gunther, L. M., & Miller, R. R. (1998). Overshadowing and latent inhibition counteract each other: Support for the comparator hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 24, 335-351.(PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Denniston, J. C., & Miller, R. R. (1998). Temporal encoding as a determinant of overshadowing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 24, 72-83. (PDF).

Friedman, B., Blaisdell, A. P. Escobar, M. E., & Miller, R. R. (1998). Comparator mechanisms and conditioned inhibition: CS preexposure disrupts Pavlovian conditioned inhibition but not explicitly unpaired inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 24, 453-466. (PDF).

Denniston, J. C., Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (1998). Temporal coding affects transfer of serial and simultaneous inhibitors. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 336-350. (PDF).

Blaisdell, A. P., Denniston, J. C., & Miller, R. R. (1997). Unblocking with qualitative change of unconditioned stimulus. Learning and Motivation, 28, 268-279. (PDF).