Aaron Blaisdell

Publications

• Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus)
• Behavioral research in pigeons with ARENA: An Automated Remote Environmental Navigation Apparatus
• Blocking of spatial control by landmarks in rats
• Beyond the information given: Causal models in learning and reasoning
• Behavioral evidence illuminating the visual abilities of the terrestrial Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus
• Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery of Spatial Behavior in Pigeons
• Blocking between landmarks during 2-D (touchscreen) and 3-D (ARENA) search tasks with pigeons
• Learning history and cholinergic modulation in the dorsal hippocampus are necessary for rats to infer the status of a hidden event.
• Imagine That! Cue-Evoked Representations Guide Rat Behavior During Ambiguous Situations
• 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
• Spatial integration of boundaries in a 3D virtual environment
• There Is Room for Conditioning in the Creative Process: Associative Learning and the Control of Behavioral Variability
• Factors that influence negative summation in a spatial-search task with pigeons
• Food choice in the laboratory pigeon
• Neural mechanisms mediating the use of imagery and inferential reasoning by rats in ambiguous situations.
• Quantifying personality in the terrestrial hermit crab: Different measures, different inferences
• Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning
• Sequence learning in pigeons: Control by rote memory and an abstract rule
• Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): Implications for attention
• Temporal Properties of Visual Search in Pigeon Target Localization
• Attributional and relational processing in pigeons
• Evaluating cognition and behavior within an automated open field
• Overshadowing Between Landmarks on the Touchscreen and in ARENA With Pigeons
• Pigeon and human performance in a multi-armed bandit task in response to changes in variable interval schedules
• Rats are sensitive to ambiguity
• The modulation of operant variation by the probability, magnitude, and delay of reinforcement
• The role of goal-directed action in causal interventions
• Effect of Reward Probability on Spatial and Temporal Variation
• Increased amplitude and duration of acoustic stimuli enhance distraction
• Perceived intensity of somatosensory cortical electrical stimulation
• Capacitive sensors for detecting proximity and response
• The special status of actions in causal reasoning in rats
• Causal reasoning in rats (vol 311, pg 1020, 2006)
• Response variability in pigeons in a Pavlovian task
• Causal reasoning in rats
• Causal reasoning in rats (vol 314, pg 1020, 2006)
• Integration of spatial maps in pigeons
• Sensory preconditioning in spatial learning using a touch screen task in pigeons
• Somatosensory feedback for brain-machine interfaces: Perceptual model and experiments in rat whisker somatosensory cortex
• Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats
• An assessment of context-specificity of the CS-preexposure effect in Pavlovian excitatory and inhibitory conditioning
• Short-term item memory in successive same-different discriminations
• Capacity and limits of associative memory in pigeons
• Temporal coding in conditioned inhibition: Analysis of associative structure of inhibition
• Backward conditioning: Mediation by the context
• Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons
• Two-item same-different concept learning in pigeons
• CS-reminder induced recovery from overshadowing in an appetitive Pavlovian preparation
• Protection of extinction is mediated by the expectancy of the US and no US representations
• Cue competition as a retrieval deficit
• Proteus caught in a (neural) net. Animal learning and cognition: A neural network approach
• The S-R information stream: Where's the filter?
• Conditioned inhibition produced by extinction-mediated recovery from the relative stimulus validity effect: A test of acquisition and performance models of empirical retrospective revaluation
• Dynamic object perception by pigeons: discrimination of action in video presentations.
• Recovery from the overexpectation effect: Contrasting performance-focused and acquisition-focused models of retrospective revaluation
• Counterconditioning of an overshadowed cue attenuates overshadowing
• Overshadowing of explicitly unpaired conditioned inhibition is disrupted by preexposure to the overshadowed inhibitor
• Posttraining shifts in the overshadowing stimulus unconditioned stimulus interval alleviates the overshadowing deficit
• Recovery from blocking achieved by extinguishing the blocking CS
• Comparator mechanisms and conditioned inhibition: Conditioned stimulus preexposure disrupts pavlovian conditioned inhibition but not explicitly unpaired inhibition
• Overshadowing and latent inhibition counteract each other: Support for the comparator hypothesis
• Temporal coding affects transfer of serial and simultaneous inhibitors
• Temporal encoding as a determinant of overshadowing
• Unblocking with qualitative change of unconditioned stimulus