Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus) Learning & Behavior - The ability to visually recognize objects despite differences in orientation would be advantageous for fish because they see objects from many viewpoints as they navigate...

New paper #psynomLB 'Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus)' https://bit.ly/3LE3M2z by DeLong et al.

#Objectconstancy #Objectdiscrimination #Visualperception

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Discrimination of invisible spatial structures by pigeons Learning & Behavior - The study of animal cognition has hosted a long debate about the nature of mental representation. Specifically, whether spatial (map-like) or associative (node-like)...

New paper #psynomLB 'Discrimination of invisible spatial structures by pigeons' https://bit.ly/4nYlJqa by Cook & Cook

#Associativelearning #Patternrecognition #Acquisition #Spatiallearning

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Willingness to work for sucrose: Impact of schedules, reinforcer alternatives, homeostatic value, and individual differences in male mice Learning & Behavior - Motivated behavior is characterized by a high degree of behavioral activation and effort. Preclinical models of operant effort-based decision-making are useful for...

New paper in #psynomLB 'Willingness to work for sucrose: Impact of schedules, reinforcer alternatives, homeostatic value, and individual differences in male mice' https://bit.ly/4pdA3fA by Arias-Sandoval et al.

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Evaluating a four-button computerized gaming system for cognitive engagement in dogs Learning & Behavior - Cognitive enrichment is essential for improving the welfare of animals in kennels, shelters, and laboratory environments. Whereas touchscreens have been used to engage...

New #paper in #psynomLB Evaluating a four-button computerized gaming system for cognitive engagement in dogs https://bit.ly/4qEgZZr

#CanineCognition #OperantLearning #videogame

Dog playing computerized game: https://bit.ly/4hIzN5z

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Sex differences in giant panda paw preferences during bamboo feeding Learning & Behavior - We examined giant panda paw use while feeding on bamboo to determine if this species exhibits manual lateralization. Video recordings of 21 captive giant pandas (15...

New #paper in #psynomLB Sex differences in giant panda paw preferences during bamboo feeding https://bit.ly/47pnzv6 by Snyder et al.

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#handedness #lateralization #bear

Are mice a bad model for successive negative contrast? Learning & Behavior - Successive negative contrast (SNC) is a procedure in which animals trained with a large reward consume less of a subsequent smaller reward than animals always trained with...

New paper #psynomLB 'Are mice a bad model for successive negative contrast?' http://bit.ly/3WcKUK6 by Daniel

#IncentiveContrast #RewardDownshift #FrustrationEffect #NegativeContrast

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Reversal learning and aging: Exploring simple discrimination learning, learning-set, and functional classes Learning & Behavior - Cognitive (or behavioral) flexibility is considered an executive function characterized by patterns of behavioral adjustment in response to changes in environmental...

New paper #psynomLB 'Reversal learning and aging: Exploring simple discrimination learning, learning-set, and functional classes' http://bit.ly/3J9wk2Y by Manfredo et al.

#CognitiveFlexibility #ReversalLearning #Learning-set

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Anticipation of cyclical resource availability in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria): Implications for seed dispersal Learning & Behavior - Many plant populations are dependent on animal-mediated seed dispersal; however, in the study of mutualistic processes, animals are generally thought of as unselective...

New paper #psynomLB 'Anticipation of cyclical resource availability in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria): Implications for seed dispersal' http://bit.ly/4odtHg9 by Soldati et al.

#Anticipation #Timing #Foraging #Reptile

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Mechanisms of socially facilitated feeding in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Learning & Behavior - The social facilitation of feeding, where individuals increase their feeding behavior in the presence of conspecifics, is widely documented, but the underlying mechanisms...

New paper in #psynomLB 'Mechanisms of socially facilitated feeding in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)' http://bit.ly/4n87G0y by Sekulovski et al.

#Socialfacilitation #Feedingbehavior #Sex differences
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Spatial representation of magnitude in rhesus macaques: Investigating SNARC effects in quantity and size dimensions Learning & Behavior - The Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect reflects an association of magnitude with space. For example, humans typically map small numbers to one...

'Spatial representation of magnitude in rhesus macaques: Investigating SNARC effects in quantity and size dimensions' http://bit.ly/3W46Cjs by Jackson et al.

#numericalprocessing #comparativecognition

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The influence of pure tacts and intraverbals on the transfer of verbal learning to new stimuli: An experimental study in children Learning & Behavior - This study investigates learning transfer processes in the teaching of pure tacts and intraverbals within the context of verbal behavior. The objectives were: to assess...

'The influence of pure tacts and intraverbals on the transfer of verbal learning to new stimuli: An experimental study in children' http://bit.ly/4omCYC7 by Maldonado et al.

#impuretacts #verbalbehavior #compoundstimuli #learningtransfer #children

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🐀😱 Do rats feel fear—or just freeze in response? New #psynomLB paper by Zheng @binyinphd.bsky.social and co tease apart defensive behavior vs. subjective emotion by studying ultrasonic vocalisations. buff.ly/t9H0yxg

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The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Victor Ajuwon has been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for L&B. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/45CAn06 #psynomLB @victorajuwon1 @Dr_AlexSchnell @_MonteiroTiago_ @nickyclayton22

New #Outlook #PsynomLB What can soundboards tell us about canine communication? https://bit.ly/3TSi0hl by @valkuhlmeier.bsky.social @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models Learning & Behavior - Cue-exposure is a treatment (e.g. for addictions and phobias) that aims to extinguish conditioned responses to target cues. However, especially in the case of addiction,...

New original #paper in #PsynomLB Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models https://bit.ly/4m2fYHa by O Brudan, H Eisenbarth & S Glautier @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

#AssociativeLearning #Extinction #Rescorla-Wagner #Pearce #Configural

Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution Learning & Behavior - Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner....

New #Outlook #PsynomLB @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution https://bit.ly/46Xjv5n by @awad-schwob.bsky.social‬

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Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution Learning & Behavior - Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner....

New #Outlook #PsynomLB @Psychonomic_Soc "Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution" https://bit.ly/46Xjv5n by Dr. Natalie Schwob @BucknellU

@ChrisKrupenye @JohnsHopkins @PNASNews

Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities Learning & Behavior - Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls can provide valuable information about predator presence and therefore yield survival benefits. However, if, how, and why...

New research paper #PsynomLB 'Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities' https://bit.ly/4n3Ida6 @federicaross9 et al. #communication #Passerines #vocalizations #playback #experiment #interspecific #interactions

Maximizing within-session stability in individual differences during an experiential impulsivity task Learning & Behavior - Behavioral measures of impulsivity and other traits often show weaker test–retest reliability than self-report measures. Weaker reliability impacts the assessment of...

New research paper #PsynomLB 'Maximizing within-session stability in individual differences during an experiential impulsivity task' https://bit.ly/45jFZNl @Psychonomic_Soc @KSUPsychSci #impulsivity #reliability #stability #behaviouralassessment by Young & Hancock

Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity Learning & Behavior - In two online experiments, we aimed to study the relationship between emotion dysregulation and persistence of incentive salience attributed to reward cues....

New research paper #PsynomLB 'Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity' https://bit.ly/43Rc3FL @Psychonomic_Soc @CanalUGR #Pavlov

Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin and DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit Learning & Behavior - Perinatal undernutrition sensitizes offspring to the development of chronic adult metabolic diseases, including cognitive dysfunction, which poses significant public...

New research paper in #PsynomLB 'Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin and DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit' https://bit.ly/4jH4BTz by Hegde et al. @Psychonomic_Soc #Recognition #memory #spatial #learning #hippocampus

Emergence of orthogonal hippocampal representations during spatial learning Learning & Behavior - Sun et al. (2025) reveal the progressive, dynamic changes in the response properties of thousands of hippocampal neurons as mice learn a conditional discrimination while...

New #Outlook #PsynomLB 'Emergence of orthogonal hippocampal representations during spatial learning' https://bit.ly/4mlOXQa by Prof. Vern Bingman @BGSU_Biology about the recent paper https://bit.ly/4jZO0eT by @sunw37 @JohanWinn @CornellNBB et al. @nature @Psychonomic_Soc

Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity Learning & Behavior - In two online experiments, we aimed to study the relationship between emotion dysregulation and persistence of incentive salience attributed to reward cues....

New #PsynomLB paper 'Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity' https://bit.ly/3YRBu8G by Gonzales et al. @CanalUGR @PsychonomicSoc

Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin and DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit Learning & Behavior - Perinatal undernutrition sensitizes offspring to the development of chronic adult metabolic diseases, including cognitive dysfunction, which poses significant public...

New #PsynomLB paper 'Unraveling the synergistic effects of Astaxanthin & DHA on perinatal undernutrition-induced oxidative stress and cognitive deficit' https://bit.ly/44IlARQ by Subrahmanya Hegde et al. @IISUniversity @PsychonomicSoc #spatiallearning #hippocampus #memory #rats

Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues Learning & Behavior - The study of animal play has grown popular in recent years and its occurrence in diverse taxa documented. Two recent papers describe detailed experimental research on play...

New #Outlook in #PsynomLB 'Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues' https://bit.ly/4mjze3Z by Prof. Gordon Burghardt @UTK_EEB based two recent papers about play...(1/2)

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Chasing solutions: A response to Bastos et al. (2024) Learning & Behavior - Two sentence summary: In this response to a recent commentary by Bastos et al. (2024) on our study showing a superiority of aversive over positive reinforcement training...

New #Commentary in #PsynomLB Chasing solutions: A response to Bastos et al. (2024) https://bit.ly/4iBNjXD by @caninecognition & Anamarie Johnson

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Differential modulation of freezing and 22-kHz USVs by shock intensity, tone-duration matching, and anxiety levels in rodent fear-conditioning paradigms Learning & Behavior - The concept of fear in animals, particularly its manifestation and measurement, remains a focal point in psychological research. This study builds on the systematic review...

New #psynomLB #Outlook paper Differential modulation of freezing and 22-kHz USVs by shock intensity, tone-duration matching, and anxiety levels in rodent fear-conditioning paradigms https://bit.ly/4jesoee @Psychonomic_Soc @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

L&B Special Issue: Interview with Nicky Clayton Audio Intro Kosovicheva: You’re listening to All Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast. Now, here is your host, Laura Mickes. Intro to the interview with Professor Nicky Clayton Mickes: N…

The #psynomLB special issue honoring Nicky Clayton is out! So is this new interview with lively Nicky Clayton as she talks about enthusiastic serendipity, dance, magic, and more.

Learning & Behavior Learning & Behavior explores fundamental processes of learning and behavior in human and nonhuman animals. An official publication of The Psychonomic ...

Special issue #PsynomLB In honor of the contributions of Prof. Nicky Clayton FRS Download for free until the end of May 25

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Memory encoded in the interactions of ants Learning & Behavior - Dreyer et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2414274121, (2025) challenged ant and human groups to carry an oddly shaped load through a series of...

New #Outlook paper in #PsynomLB by link.springer.com/ar... by @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social @feinermo @Psychonomic_Soc