Alan Kamil
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American psychologist and biologist
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Alan Kamil's Degrees
- Doctorate Biology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alan C. Kamil is an American experimental psychologist. He is the Director, School of Biological Sciences and George Holmes Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Kamil's work focusses on the evolution of memory and adaptive specializations of learning in many animal species, especially the Clark's nutcracker and other birds. Kamil has published peer reviewed articles on both theoretical aspects of comparative psychology and animal cognition, and on empirical studies of animal learning and memory. In 2013 Kamil was honoured by the Comparative Cognition Society for his contributions to the study of animal cognition.
Alan Kamil's Published Works
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Published Works
- Foraging behavior: ecological, ethological, and psychological approaches (1981) (456)
- Pinyon jays use transitive inference to predict social dominance (2004) (311)
- Search Image Formation in the Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) (1979) (296)
- Social complexity and transitive inference in corvids (2003) (283)
- Systematic foraging by a nectar-feeding bird, the Amakihi (Loxops virens) (1978) (280)
- Visual predators select for crypticity and polymorphism in virtual prey (2002) (273)
- A comparative study of cache recovery by three corvid species (1989) (225)
- Cache recovery and spatial memory in Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana). (1985) (223)
- Long-term spatial memory in clark's nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana (1992) (217)
- Limited attention: the constraint underlying search image (2001) (201)
- The cost of limited attention in blue jays (2000) (190)
- Serial reversal learning and the evolution of behavioral flexibility in three species of North American corvids (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, Nucifraga columbiana, Aphelocoma californica). (2007) (187)
- The ecology of foraging behavior: implications for animal learning and memory. (1985) (186)
- The seed-storing corvid Clark's nutcracker learns geometric relationships among landmarks (1997) (172)
- Optimal Foraging Theory and the Psychology of Learning (1983) (171)
- Visual Detection of Cryptic Prey by Blue Jays (Cyanocitta cristata) (1977) (150)
- Differences in hippocampal volume among food storing corvids. (1996) (137)
- Apostatic selection by blue jays produces balanced polymorphism in virtual prey (1998) (136)
- Performance of four seed-caching corvid species in the radial-arm maze analog. (1994) (132)
- Spatial heterogeneity, predator cognition, and the evolution of color polymorphism in virtual prey. (2006) (123)
- Performance of four seed-caching corvid species in operant tests of nonspatial and spatial memory. (1995) (119)
- Long-term spatial memory in four seed-caching corvid species (1997) (114)
- Way-finding and landmarks: the multiple-bearings hypothesis. (2001) (114)
- Spatial Learning as an Adaptation in Hummingbirds (1982) (106)
- Tool-Making and Tool-Using in the Northern Blue Jay (1973) (98)
- Response strategies in the radial arm maze: Running around in circles (1982) (93)
- Geometric rule learning by Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana). (2000) (92)
- Evolution and Cognition: By Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 386 pages, ISBN 0-262-08286-1, US$47.95 (2001) (83)
- Learning and Foraging Behavior (1982) (78)
- The effects of fixed-ratio sample requirements on matching to sample in the pigeon (1972) (75)
- Predicting Cognitive Capacity from Natural History (1996) (72)
- Sociality and social learning in two species of corvids: the pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) and the Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana). (1999) (69)
- On the Proper Definition of Cognitive Ethology (1998) (67)
- Spatial Memory in Seed-Caching Corvids (1990) (62)
- The spatial memory of Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) in an analogue of the radial arm maze (1988) (60)
- ‘Neuroecologists’ are not made of straw (2002) (58)
- Cognitive representation in transitive inference: A comparison of four corvid species (2010) (58)
- The use of local and global cues by Clark's nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana (1996) (58)
- A comparative study of geometric rule learning by nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana), pigeons (Columba livia), and jackdaws (Corvus monedula). (2002) (53)
- Searching image in blue jays: Facilitation and interference in sequential priming (1999) (49)
- Returns to emptied cache sites by Clark's nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana: a puzzle revisited (1993) (49)
- Animal cognition in nature : the convergence of psychology and biology in laboratory and field (1998) (47)
- The Ecology and Evolution of Spatial Memory in Corvids of the Southwestern USA: The Perplexing Pinyon Jay (1998) (44)
- Cache Site Memory in Birds (1987) (42)
- The effect of proximity on landmark use in Clark's nutcrackers (1999) (40)
- Rules to leave by: patch departure in foraging blue jays (1988) (40)
- Failure of simple optimal foraging models to predict residence time when patch quality is uncertain (1993) (40)
- Positive transfer from successive reversal training to learning set in Blue Jays (Cyanocitta cristata) (1977) (40)
- Revisits to emptied cache sites by Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) (1986) (39)
- Context-dependent seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding corvid. (2016) (39)
- Searching by rules: pigeons' (Columba livia) landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance. (2003) (38)
- Differential memory for different cache sites by Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) (1990) (37)
- Evolutionary psychology and motivation (2001) (35)
- The effect of background cuing on prey detection (1998) (30)
- A Comparative-Ecological Approach to the Study of Learning (1988) (29)
- Performance on object-discrimination learning set by the greater hill myna (Gracula religiosa) (1970) (29)
- Landmark use by Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana): influence of disorientation and cue rotation on distance and direction estimates (2009) (27)
- Pigeons and people select efficient routes when solving a one-way "traveling salesperson" task. (2007) (27)
- Signal Detection Theory and Foraging for Cryptic or Mimetic Prey (1987) (27)
- Tests for cognitive mapping in Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana). (2001) (27)
- Selective Attention, Priming, and Foraging Behavior (2006) (27)
- What scatter-hoarding animals have taught us about small-scale navigation (2010) (27)
- Experimental Design in Ornithology (1988) (26)
- Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) and the effects of goal--landmark distance on overshadowing. (2004) (26)
- Object-discrimination learning set and hypothesis behavior in the northern bluejay (Cynaocitta cristata) (1971) (24)
- Predicting Cognitive Capacity from Natural History: Examples from Four Species of Corvids (1996) (24)
- Patterns of movement and orientation during caching and recovery by Clark’s nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana (1999) (24)
- Sociality and the evolution of intelligence (2004) (24)
- Spatial and Social Cognition in Corvids: An Evolutionary Approach (2002) (23)
- Interference effects in the memory for serially presented locations in Clark's nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana. (2006) (23)
- Cognition-mediated evolution of low-quality floral nectars (2017) (23)
- The use of relative and absolute bearings by Clark’s nutcrackers,Nucifraga columbiana (2001) (22)
- The second-order conditioning of fear in rats (1968) (21)
- The synthetic approach to the study of spatial memory: Have we properly addressed Tinbergen's “four questions”? (2009) (20)
- The effects of prey depletion on the patch choice of foraging blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) (1985) (20)
- The fine-grained spatial abilities of three seed-caching corvids (2005) (20)
- The Use of Landmarks by Clark's Nutcrackers: First Tests of a New Model (2001) (20)
- Differences in Relative Hippocampus Volume and Number of Hippocampus Neurons among Five Corvid Species (2013) (19)
- Linking Life Zones, Life History Traits, Ecology, and Spatial Cognition in Four Allopatric Southwestern Seed Caching Corvids (2006) (18)
- Memory in Food Caching Animals (2008) (18)
- Use of Landmarks in Three Species of Food-storing Corvids (2010) (17)
- Effects of response strategy and retention interval on performance of Clark's nutcrackers in a radial maze analogue. (1993) (17)
- The detection of cryptic prey by blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) I: the effects of travel time (1985) (17)
- Discrimination and generalization of leaf damage by blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) (1984) (16)
- Do Clark’s nutcrackers demonstrate what-where-when memory on a cache-recovery task? (2011) (16)
- Integrating cognitive ethology with cognitive psychology (1991) (15)
- Within-Territory Division of Foraging Space by Male and Female Amakihi (Loxops virens) (1982) (15)
- Species Differences in Spatial Memory Performance on a Three-dimensional Task (2010) (15)
- Diet choices of blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) as a function of time spent foraging (1988) (14)
- Learning-set behavior in the learning-set experienced blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata). (1973) (14)
- Learning, memory, and foraging behavior. (1990) (13)
- Visual search and attention in blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata): Associative cuing and sequential priming. (2014) (13)
- Intraproblem retention during learning-set acquisition in bluejays (Cyanocitta cristata) (1975) (13)
- Does Seed-Caching Experience Affect Spatial Memory Performance by Pinyon Jays? (2006) (12)
- Search for a hidden goal by clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) is more accurate inside than outside a landmark array (2001) (11)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sensory Biology (1988) (10)
- Direct and relational representation during transitive list linking in pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus). (2014) (10)
- Clark's Nutcracker (Aves: Corvidae) Spatial Memory: Interference Effects on Cache Recovery Performance? (2010) (9)
- How do they, indeed? A reply to Biegler et al. (1999) (8)
- Ecology and learning (1981) (8)
- The Evolution of Virtual Ecology (2001) (7)
- Preface: Animal Cognition in Nature (1998) (7)
- Cognition as an Independent Variable: Virtual Ecology (2002) (6)
- Changing room cues reduces the effects of proactive interference in Clark's Nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana. (2013) (6)
- THE ROLE OF ADVENTITIOUS REINFORCMENT IN OPERANT DISCRIMINATION (1968) (5)
- The effects of requiring different response strategies following caching in Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) (1994) (5)
- Foraging Behavior (1987) (4)
- Eurasian jays predict the food preferences of their mates (2013) (4)
- Marginal learning-set formation by the crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) (1975) (4)
- The role of adventitious reinforcement in operant discrimination. (1968) (3)
- Animal Spatial Cognition : Comparative , Neural & Computational Approaches (2006) (3)
- The E cology and Evolution of Spatial Memory in Corvids of the Southwestern USA: The P erplexing (1998) (3)
- The Lehigh Valley INTERACT: An operant research computer system for the noncomputer jockey (1972) (2)
- Studies of Learning and Memory in Natural Contexts : Integrating Functional and Mechanistic Approaches to Behavior (1989) (2)
- Effects of sun compass error on spatial search by Clark's nutcrackers. (2019) (2)
- Operant discrimination as a function of rate of stimulus alternation (1966) (2)
- Prospects for a more cognitive ethology (1991) (1)
- Convenience Stores: Repeated Use of Some Cache Sites by Clark's Nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) (2010) (1)
- SYSTEMATIC PATTERNS OF FORAGING FOR NECTAR BY AMAKIHI (LOXOPS VIRENS) (1975) (1)
- The Minds of Birds Alexander F. Skutch (1997) (0)
- Symposium: Evolution of intelligence (1994) (0)
- Marginal learning-set formation by the crow (1975) (0)
- DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Integrating Cognitive Ethology with Cognitive Psychology Integrating Cognitive Ethology with Cognitive Psychology (2019) (0)
- Interactions between associative and sequential priming: (603982013-010) (2007) (0)
- of Nebraska - Lincoln of Nebraska - Lincoln Selective Attention, Priming, and Foraging Behavior Selective Attention, Priming, and Foraging Behavior (2019) (0)
- Food Hoarding in Animals Stephen B. Vander Wall (1992) (0)
- Cognition mediated floral evolution: prospect theory drives mammalian pollinator: (598092013-085) (2011) (0)
- Review of Evolution and Cognition , edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber. (2001) (0)
- Pinyon jays exhibit consistant caching behaviors over time and across situations: (598112013-020) (2010) (0)
- Developing an operant analog of episodic-Like memory in Western scrub jays: (598112013-071) (2010) (0)
- Chapter 19 - The microevolution of feeding behavior (1981) (0)
- Nutcrackers learn geometric relationships among landmarks: (536982012-132) (1997) (0)
- Pigeons Are Efficient Travelers: (604012013-019) (2004) (0)
- Cognition in predator-prey systems: Searching image and prey polymorphism: (536982012-129) (1997) (0)
- Ethology will not wither. (1990) (0)
- On the Proper Definit ion of Cognitive Ethology (1998) (0)
- Landmark cues are important for nutcracker spatial memory: (603982013-002) (2007) (0)
- Performance of seed-caching corvids during color nonmatching (1992) (0)
- Marginal learning-set formation (1975) (0)
- Temporal Shifts in Foraging Strategy: Introduction. (1996) (0)
- Do Clark’s nutcrackers demonstrate what-where-when memory on a cache-recovery task? (2011) (0)
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