Publications
Publications can be downloaded from my Academia account.
Refereed Journal Publications
Anselme, P., & Blaisdell, A. P. (in press). Differences in paradoxical choice between pigeons (Columba livia) and rats (Rattus norvegicus): The problem of cue trackability. Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Cook, R. G., & Blaisdell, A. P. (in press). Impact of Equivalence Class Training on Same/Different Learning by Pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition.
Seitz, B. M., Stolyarova, A., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2024). Inhibitory Stimulus–Response Associations Influence the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 36(1). 10.46867/ijcp.2024.36.5639. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h34z46z
Under Review: González, V. V., Ashikyan, S. A., Zhang, Y., Rickard, A., Yassine, I., Romero-Sosa, J. L., Blaisdell, A. P., Izquierdo, A. (2022, August 7). A special role for Anterior Cingulate Cortex, but not Orbitofrontal Cortex or Basolateral Amygdala, in choices involving information. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.03.551514
Logan, Corina; Lukas, Dieter; Blaisdell, Aaron; Johnson-Ulrich, Zoe; MacPherson, Maggie; Seitz, Benjamin; Sevchik, August; McCune, Kelsey. (2023). Behavioral flexibility is manipulable and it improves flexibility and innovativeness in a new context. Peer Community Journal, Volume 3, article no. e70. doi : 10.24072/pcjournal.284. https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.284/
McCune K, Blaisdell A, Johnson-Ulrich Z, Sevchik A, Lukas D, MacPherson M, Seitz B, Logan CJ. (2023). Using repeatability of performance within and across contexts to validate measures of behavioral flexibility. PeerJ 11:e15773 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15773 https://peerj.com/articles/15773/
González, V. & Blaisdell, A. P. (2023). Inhibition and paradoxical choice. Learning & Behavior. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13420-023-00584-2
Longan, A., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2023). Pigeons (Columba livia) distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 36(1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wj9m6p0
González, V. Sadeghi, S., Tran, L., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2023). The conjunction fallacy in rats. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02251-z
Flaim, M., Guo, J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2023). Choice Reaction Time in Pigeons Fails to Increase as Predicted by Hick’s Law. Behavioral Processes, 206, 104838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104838
Flaim, M. & Blaisdell, A. P. (2023). The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons. Learning & Behavior, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00565-x
González, V. Izquierdo, A., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2023). Theoretical Mechanisms of Paradoxical Choices Involving Information. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 18, 011-031. https://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/vol18_gonzalez_izquierdo_blaisdell/
Seitz, B. M., Hoang, I. B., DiFazio, L. E., Blaisdell, A. P., & Sharpe, M. J. (2022). Dopamine errors drive excitatory and inhibitory components of backward conditioning in an outcome-specific manner. Current Biology, 32, 3210-3218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.035
Blaisdell, A. P. & Schroeder, J. E. (2022). Evidence for Object-Place binding in pigeons in a sequence-learning procedure. Learning & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00521-9
González, V. V., Seitz, B. M., Formaker, R., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2022). Elements of a compound elicit little conditioned reinforcement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 48, 67-72.
Logan, C. J., McCune, K. B., MacPherson, M., Johnson-Ulrich, Z., Rowney, C., Seitz, B., Blaisdell, A. P., Deffner, D., Wascher, C. A. F. (2022). Are the more flexible individuals also better at inhibition? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(1), 14-36. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.01.03.2022
González, V. V., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2021). The role of inhibition in the suboptimal choice task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 27, 429-444. PDF.
Blaisdell, A. P., Seitz, B., Rowney, C., Folsom, M., MacPherson, M., Deffner, D., & Logan, C. J. (2021). Do the more flexible individuals rely more on causal cognition? Observation versus intervention in causal inference in great-tailed grackles, Peer Community Journal, 1: e50. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.44
González, V. V., Seitz, B. M., Formaker, R., & Blaisdell, A. P. (in press). Elements of a compound elicit little conditioned reinforcement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition. PDF
Logan CJ, McCune KB, MacPherson M, Johnson-Ulrich Z, Rowney C, Seitz B, Blaisdell AP, Deffner D, Wascher CAF. (in press). Are the more flexible great-tailed grackles also better at behavioral inhibition? Animal Behavior and Cognition.
Bouchekioua, Y., Kosaki, Y., Shigeru, W., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2021). Higher-order conditioning in the spatial domain. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, section Learning and Memory, 15:766767. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.766767. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.766767/full
Seitz, B. M., Blaisdell, A. P., & Sharpe, M. J. (2021). Higher-order cognition and dopamine: charting a path forward. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, section Learning and Memory. 15:745388. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.745388. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.745388/full
Seitz, B. M., Tomiyama, A. J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2021). Eating behavior as a new frontier in memory research Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 127, 795-807. PDF
Seitz BM, McCune K, MacPherson M, Bergeron L, Blaisdell AP, Logan CJ. (2021). Using touchscreen equipped operant chambers to study animal cognition. Benefits, limitations, and advice. PLoS ONE 16(2): e0246446. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246446
Seitz, B. M., Blaisdell, A. P., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2021). Calories count: Memory of eating is evolutionarily special. Journal of Memory and Language, 117. PDFhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749596X20301066
Bouchekioua, Y., Blaisdell, A. P., Kosaki, Y., Tsutsui-Kimura, I., Craddock, P., Mimura, M., & Shigeru, W. Spatial inference without a cognitive map: The role of higher-order path integration. Biological Reviews, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12645. PDF
Flaim, M. & Blaisdell, A. P. (2020). Comparative analysis of general intelligence. Psychological Bulletin. online early view. PDF.
Seitz, B. M., Flaim, M. E., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2020). Evidence that novel flavors unconditionally suppress weight gain in the absence of flavor-calorie associations. Learning & Behavior. PDF
Seitz, B. M., Blaisdell, A.P., Polack, C. W., & Miller, R. R. (2019). The role of biological significance in human learning and memory. The International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 32. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67k6r0n9
Thomas, C. J., Rothschild, J., Earnest, C. P., & Blaisdell, A. (2019). The effects of energy drink consumption on cognitive and physical performance in elite League of Legends players. Sports, 7, 196. doi:10.3390/sports7090196.
Blaisdell, A. P. (2019). Mental imagery in animals: Learning, memory, and decision making in the face of missing information. Learning & Behavior, 47, 193-216. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-019-00386-5. PDF
Blaisdell, A. P. (2019). How to build a human brain: Evolution, development, and education. Journal of Evolution and Health, 3(2), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.15310/2334-3591.1114. Download.
Blaisdell, A. P., Schroeder, J. E., & Fast, C. D. (2018). Spatial integration during performance in pigeons. Behavioural Processes, 154, 73-80. PDF
Blaisdell, A. P. (2018). The role of a high-sugar refined diet on food and energy intake, body weight, exercise, and motivation in rats. Journal of Evolution and Health, 3(2), Article 3. http://jevohealth.com/journal/vol2/iss3/3. Download.
Schroeder, J., Garlick, D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2018). ARENA 2.0: The next generation Automated Remote Environmental Navigation Apparatus to facilitate cross-species comparisons in behavior and cognition. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 773-785. PDF
Shragai, T., Ping, X., Arakaki, C., Garlick, D., Blumstein, D. T., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2017). Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues. PeerJ 5:e4058 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4058 Download.
Kosarussavadi, S., Pennington, Z. T., Covell, J., Blaisdell, A. P., & Schlinger, B. A. (2017). Across sex and age: Learning and memory and patterns of avian hippocampal gene expression. Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, 483-491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000222. PDF
Blaisdell, A. P., Biedermann, T., Sosa, E., Abuchaei, A., Youssef, N., & Bradesi, S. (2017). An obesogenic refined low-fat diet disrupts attentional and behavioral control processes in a vigilance task in rats. Behavioural Processes, 138, 142-151. PDF
Blaisdell, A. P. (2017). Diet and cognition: Data, theory, and some solutions from the playbook of psychology. Journal of Evolution and Health, 2(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.15310/2334-3591.1060. Download.
Garlick, D., Fountain, S. B., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2017). Serial pattern learning in pigeons: Rule-based or associative? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 43, 30-47. PDF
Blaisdell, A. P., Stolyarova, A., & Stahlman, W. D. (2016). The Law of Expect or a Modified Law of Effect? Outcome expectation and variation in learned behavior. Conductual: The International Journal of Interbehaviorism and Behavior Analysis, 4(2), 61-90. Download.
Wong, J., Leising, K. J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2016). Spatial overshadowing in pigeons: Evidence for an acquisition deficit. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 29, 1-19. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p1212n7. Wong et al Spatial overshadowing in pigeons Evidence for an acquisition deficit IJCP 2016
Fast, C. D., Flesher, M. M., Nocera, N. A., Fanselow, M. S., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2016). Learning history and cholinergic modulation in the dorsal hippocampus are necessary for rats to infer the status of a hidden event. Hippocampus, 26, 804-815. DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22564. Fast et al Learning history and cholinergic modulation in the dorsal HP are necessary for rats to infer the status of a hidden event Hippocampus 2016
Fast, C. D., Biedermann, T., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2016). Imagine that! Cue-evoked representations guide rat behavior during ambiguous situations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 200-211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000093. Fast Biedermann & Blaisdell Imagine that JEP ALC 2016
Leising, K. J., Wong, J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2015). Extinction and spontaneous recovery of spatial behavior in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 41, 371-377. Leising Wong & Blaisdell Extinction and spontaneous recovery of spatial behavior in pigeons JEP ALC 2015
Blaisdell, A. P. (2015). Play as the foundation of human intelligence: The illuminating role of human brain evolution and development and implications for education and child development. Journal of Evolution and Health 1(1), Article 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15310/2334-3591.1016.
Ping, X., Lee, J. S., Garlick, D., Jiang, Z., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2015). Behavioral evidence illuminating the visual abilities of the terrestrial Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus. Behavioural Processes, 118, 47-58. Ping et al Behavioral evidence illuminating the visual abilities of the terrestrial Caribbean hermit crab BP 2015
Leising, K. J., Wong, J., Ruprecht, C. M., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2014). Blocking between landmarks during 2-D (touchscreen) and 3-D (ARENA) search tasks with pigeons. Learning & Behavior, 42, 357-364. Leising Wong Ruprecht & Blaisdell Blocking between landmarks during 2-D and 3-D search tasks with pigeons L&B 2014
Blaisdell, A. P., Lau, Y., Telminova, E., Lim, H. C., Fan, B., Fast, C. D., Garlick, D., & Pendergrass, D. C. (2014). Food quality and motivation: A refined low-fat diet induces obesity and impairs performance on a progressive ratio schedule of instrumental lever pressing in rats. Physiology & Behavior, 128, 220-225. doi: 10.1016/j/physbeh.2014.02.025. Blaisdell et al Food quality and motivation Physiology & Behavior 2014
Blaisdell, A. P., Pottenger, B., & Torday, J. C. (2013). From heart beats to health recipes: The role of fractal physiology in the ancestral health movement. Journal of Evolution and Health, 1, 1(2). http://jevohealth.com/journal/vol1/iss1/2.
Bouchekioua, Y., Miller, H. C., Craddock, P., Blaisdell, A. P., & Molet, M. (2013). Spatial integration of boundaries in a 3D virtual environment. Acta Phsychologica, 144, 316-323. Bouchekioua et al Spatial integration in humans Acta Psychologica2
Watanabe, N. M., Stahlman, W. D., Blaisdell, A. P., Garlick, D., Fast, C. D., & Blumstein, D. T. (2012). Quantifying personality in the terrestrial hermit crab: Different measures, different inferences. Behavioural Processes, 91, 133-140. Watanabe Stahlman Blaisdell Garlick Fast & Blumstein Quantifying personality in hermit crab BP 2012
Waldmann, M. R., Schmid, M., Wong, J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2012). Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning. Animal Cognition, 15, 979-990. Waldmann Schmid Wong & Blaisdell Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning AC 2012
Biedermann, T., Garlick, D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2012). Food choice in the laboratory pigeon. Behavioural Processes, 91, 129-132. Biedermann Garlick & Blaisdell Food choice in the laboratory pigeon BP 2012
Ryan, K. M., Blumstein, D. T., Blaisdell, A. P., & Stahlman, W. D. (2012). Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): Implications for attention. Behavioural Processes, 91, 26-29. PMID: 22643163. Ryan Blumstein Blaisdell & Stahlman Stimulus concordance in hermit crabs BP 2012
Ankowski, A., Thom, E., Sandhofer, C., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2012). Spatial language and children’s spatial landmark use. Child Development Research, vol. 2012, Article ID 427364, 14 pages. doi: 10.1155/2012/427364. Ankowski Thom Sandhofer & Blaisdell Spatial language and childrens spatial landmark use Child Development Research 2012
Leising, K. J., Sawa, K., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2012). Factors that influence negative summation in a spatial-search task with pigeons. Behavioural Processes, 90, 357-363. Leising Sawa & Blaisdell Factors that influence negative summation in a spatial-search task with pigeons BP 2012
Blaisdell, A. P. (February 7, 2012). A symphony of self. Review of Self comes to mind: Constructing the conscious brain, by Antonio Damasio. Los Angeles Review of Books, [Download].
Cook, R. G., Katz, J. S., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2012). Temporal properties of visual search in pigeon target localization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 38, 209-216. Cook Katz & Blaisdell Temporal properties of visual search in pigeon target localization JEPABP 2012
Blaisdell, A. P., & Weiss, S. J. (2011). The interface between learning and cognition: The 2010 Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Focus Session. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 24, 307-314. Blaisdell & Weiss Interface between Learning and Cognition IJCP 2011
Fast, C. D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2011). Rats are sensitive to ambiguity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 1230-1237. Fast & Blaisdell Rats sensitive to ambiguity PB&R 2011
Leising, K. J., Garlick, D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2011). Overshadowing between landmarks on the touchscreen and in ARENA with pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 488-494. Leising Garlick & Blaisdell Overshadowing between landmarks JEPABP 2011
Stahlman, W. D., Chan, A. Y-H., Blumstein, D. T., Fast, C. D., & Blaisdell,A. P. (2011). Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus). Behavioural Processes, 88, 7-11. Stahlman et al Auditory stim dishabituation in hermit crabs BP 2011
Stahlman, W. D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2011). The modulation of operant variation by the probability, magnitude, and delay of reinforcement. Learning and Motivation, 42, 221-226. Stahlman & Blaisdell L&M 2011
Racey, D., Young, M. E., Garlick, D., Pham, J. N-M., & Blaisdell. A. P. (2011). Pigeon and human performance in a multi-armed bandit task in response to changes in variable interval schedules. Learning & Behavior, 39, 245-258. Racey et al Pigeon and human bandit task L&B 2011
Stahlman, W. D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2011). Reward probability and the variability of foraging behavior in rats. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 24, 168-176. Stahlman & Blaisdell IJCP 2011
Garlick, D., Gant, D. J., Brakel, L. A. W., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2011). Attributional and relational processing in pigeons. Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, 2, 14. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00014. [Download]
Chan, A. Y-H., Stahlman, W. D., Garlick, D., Fast, C. D., Blumstein, D. T., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2010). Increased amplitude and duration of acoustic stimuli enhance distraction. Animal Behaviour, 80, 1075-1079. Chan et al AB 2010
Fridman, G. Y., Blair, H. T., Blaisdell, A. P., & Judy, J. W. (2010). Perceived intensity of somatosensory cortical electrical stimulation. Experimental Brain Research, 203, 499-515. Fridman Blair Blaisdell & Judy Exp Brain Res 2010
Stahlman, W. D., Young, M. E., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2010). Response variability in pigeons in a Pavlovian task. Learning & Behavior, 38, 111-118. Stahlman Young & Blaisdell L&B 2010
Stahlman, W. D., Roberts, S., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2010). Effect of reward probability on spatial and temporal variation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36, 77-91. Stahlman Roberts Blaisdell JEPABP 2010
Leising, K. J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2009). Associative basis of landmark learning and integration in vertebrates. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 4, 80-102. [Download]
Stahlman, W. D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2009). Blocking of spatial control by landmarks in rats. Behavioural Processes, 81, 114-118 . Stahlman & Blaisdell BP 2009
Leising, K. J., Garlick, D., Parenteau, M., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2009). Behavioral research in pigeons with ARENA: An automated remote environmental navigation apparatus. Behavioural Processes, 81, 105-113. Leising Garlick Parenteau & Blaisdell BP 2009
Blaisdell, A. P., Leising, K. J., Stahlman, W. D., & Waldmann, M. S. (2009). Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of information in sensory preconditioning. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 22, 1-18. [Download]
Leising, K. J., Wong, J., Waldmann, M. S., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2008). The special status of actions in causal reasoning in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 514-527. Leising Wong Waldmann & Blaisdell 2008 JEP Gen
Badelt, S. W., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2008). Capacitive sensors for detecting proximity and response. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 613-621. Badelt & Blaisdell BRM 2008
Leising, K., J., Sawa, K., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2007). Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats. Learning & Behavior, 35, 11-18. Leising Sawa & Blaisdell L&B 2007
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. Waldmann Hagmayer & Blaisdell Curr Direct 2006
Blaisdell, A. P., Sawa, K., Leising, K. J., & Waldmann, M. S. (2006). Causal reasoning in rats. Science, 311, 1020-1022. [Download]
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. Nakajima Takahashi & Blaisdell BP 2006
Cook, R. G., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2006). Short-term item memory in successive same-different discriminations. Behavioural Processes, 72, 255-264. Cook & Blaisdell BP 2006
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. Roper Chaponis & Blaisdell PBR 2006
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. Sawa Leising & Blaisdell 2005 JEPABP
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. Cook Levison Gillett & Blaisdell 2005 PB&R
Blaisdell, A. P. & Cook, R. G. (2005). Two-item same-different concept learning in pigeons. Learning & Behavior, 33, 67-77. Blaisdell & Cook 2005 L&B
Blaisdell, A. P., & Cook, R. G. (2005). Integration of spatial maps in pigeons. Animal Cognition, 8, 7-16. Blaisdell & Cook 2005 AC
Blaisdell, A. P. (2005). Mechanism through methodology: No madness to the method. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 18, 23-27. [Download]
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. Denniston Blaisdell& Miller 2004 JEPABP
Chang, R., Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Backward conditioning: Mediation by the context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29, 171-183. Chang Blaisdell & Miller 2003 JEPABP
Denniston, J. C., Savastano, H. I., Blaisdell, A. P., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Cue competition as a retrieval deficit. Learning and Motivation, 24, 1-31. Denniston Savastano Blaisdell & Miller 2003 L&M
Blaisdell, A. P. (2003). The S-R stream: Where’s the filter. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 38, 147-165. Blaisdell 2003 IPBS
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. Blaisdell 2003 JMP
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. Cook Shaw & Blaisdell 2001 Animal Cog
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. Blaisdell Denniston & Miller 2001 AL&B
Blaisdell, A. P. & Miller, R. R. (2001). Conditioned inhibition produced by extinctionmediated 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. Blaisdell & Miller 2001 JEPABP
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. Blaisdell Denniston Savastano & Miller 2000 JEPABP
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. Blaisdell Savastano & Miller 1999 AL&B
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. Blaisdell Gunther & Miller 1999 AL&B
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. Blaisdell Denniston & Miller 1999 JEPABP
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. Friedman Blaisdell Escobar Miller 1998 JEPABP
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. Denniston Blaisdell & Miller 1998 AL&B
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. Blaisdell Bristol Gunther & Miller 1998 JEPABP
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. Blaisdell Denniston & Miller 1998 JEPABP
Blaisdell, A. P., Denniston, J. C., & Miller, R. R. (1997). Unblocking with qualitative change of unconditioned stimulus. Learning and Motivation, 28, 268-279. Blaisdell Denniston & Miller 1997 L&M
Archived Preprints
Flaim, M., & Blaisdell, A. (2021, April 6). A Procedure for the Assessment of Individual Differences in Relational Discrimination Behavior in the Pigeon (Columba livia). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x7by3
Logan, C. J., McCune, K., MacPherson, M., Johnson-Ulrich, Z., Rowney, C., Seitz, B., … Wascher, C. (2020, December 2). Are the more flexible great-tailed grackles also better at behavioral inhibition?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vpc39
Seitz, B. M., Tomiyama, A. J., & Blaisdell, A. (2020, September 11). Eating Behavior as a New Frontier in Memory Research. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ry4nv
Seitz, B. M., Equita, J., Tomiyama, A. J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2020, May 12). Is there a memory bias for high calorie food images?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c6a73
Blaisdell, A. P. & Schroeder, J. E. (2019, November 2). Evidence for Object-Place binding in pigeons in a sequence-learning procedure. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fnjpr
Seitz, B. M., Stolyarova, A., & Blaisdell, A. (2019, November 1). The Modified Law of Effect Explains the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kbymr
Seitz, B. M., Blaisdell, A., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2019, October 25). What did I eat for lunch? An investigation of the strength and determinants of memory of eating. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d54cp
Edited Book Chapters
Blaisdell, A. P. & Seitz, B. M. (in press). Constraints on Learning and Memory: A Resolution. In M.A. Krause, K. L. Hollis, & M. R. Papini (Eds.). Evolution of learning and memory mechanisms. Cambridge University Press.
Blaisdell, A. P. (2018). Evolutionary mismatch: A framework for understanding health and disease in the modern world – “Better living through evolution”. In David Sloan Wilson & Steven C. Hayes (Eds.), Evolution & Contextual Behavioral Science (207-221). Context Press. Blaisdell Evolutionary mismatch 2018
Blaisdell, A. P. (2017). Cognitive dimension of operant learning. In H.L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology of Memory. Vol. 1 of Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Second Edition, 4 vols. (J. Byrne Editor) (pp. 85-110). Oxford: Elsevier. Blaisdell Cog Dimension Operant Learning 2017
Krawczyk, D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2017). The Comparative Approach: Reasoning in Other Species, Chapter 4. In D. Krawczyk (ed.), Reasoning: The Neuroscience of How We Think (pp. 71-99). Elsevier.
Blaisdell, A. P. (2016). Comparative approaches to the study of basic processes of cognition: A tale of three species. In M. C. Olmstead (Ed.), Animal Cognition: Principles, Evolution, and Development (pp. 27-59). Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Stahlman, W. D., Leising, K. J., Garlick, D., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2013). There is room for conditioning in the creative process: Associative learning and the control of behavioral variability. In A. S. Bristol, J. C. Kaufman, and O. Vartanian (Eds.), The Neuroscience of Creativity (pp. 45-67). MIT Press. Stahlman Leising Garlick & Blaisdell Chapter 3 Neuroscience of Creativity 2013
Blaisdell, A. P. & Waldmann, M. R. (2012). Rational rats: Causal inference and representation. In E. A. Wasserman & T. R. Zentall (Eds.)., Handbook of Comparative Cognition (pp. 175-198). Oxford, Oxford University Press. Blaisdell & Waldmann Causal Cognition Chapter_2011
Blaisdell, A. P. (2009). The role of associative processes in spatial, temporal, and causal cognition. (pp. 153-172). In Watanabe, S., Blaisdell, A. P., Huber, L., & Young, A. (Eds.), Rational animals, irrational humans, Tokyo, Keio University Press. Blaisdell Rational Animals Rational Animals Irrational Humans Chapter 9
Waldmann, M. R. Cheng, P. W., Hagmayer, Y., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2008). Causal learning in rats and humans: A minimal rational model. (pp. 453-484). In N. Chater & M. Oaksford (Eds.), The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Waldmann et al Causal learning in rats and humans A minimal rational model 2008 Charter&Oaksford Chap20
Blaisdell, A. P. (2008). Cognitive dimension of operant learning. (pp 173-195). In H.L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology of Memory. Vol. 1 of Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 4 vols. (J.Byrne Editor). Oxford: Elsevier. Blaisdell Cog Dimension Operant Learning 2008
Archived Reprints:
Blaisdell, A. & Schroeder, J. E. (2019, November 2). Evidence for Object-Place binding in pigeons in a sequence-learning procedure. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fnjpr
Seitz, B. M., & Blaisdell, A. (2019, November 1). The Modified Law of Effect Explains the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kbymr
Seitz, B. M., Blaisdell, A., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2019, October 25). Meal Memories are Special: Superior Memory for Eating Versus Non-Eating Behaviors. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d54cp
Encyclopedia Entries
Blaisdell, A. P. (2018). Rationality. In J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_744-1. Blaisdell Rationality Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior 2018
Schachtman, T., Escobar, M. E., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2018). Ralph Miller. In J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_993-1. Schachtman et al Ralph Miller Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior 2018
Blaisdell, A. P. & Miller, R. R. (2012). Causal Learning. In N. M. Seel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning. Vol. 3 (pp. 520-523). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Blaisdell & Miller Causal Learning Encyclopedia Entry 974_Print version
Books
Watanabe, S., Blaisdell, A. P., Huber, L., & Young, A. (2009). Rational Animals, Irrational Humans, Tokyo, Japan; Keio University Press.