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PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
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According to Wikipedia, Charles Ransom Gallistel is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He is an expert in the cognitive processes of learning and memory, using animal models to carry out research on these topics. Gallistel is married to fellow psychologist Rochel Gelman. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty he held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was chair of the psychology department and Bernard L. & Ida E. Grossman Term Professor, and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The Child's Understanding of Number (1979) (2157)
The organization of learning (1990) (1721)
Preverbal and verbal counting and computation (1992) (1237)
Time, rate, and conditioning. (2000) (1033)
Non-verbal numerical cognition: from reals to integers (2000) (761)
Toward a neurobiology of temporal cognition: advances and challenges (1997) (722)
The Organization of Action: A New Synthesis (1982) (614)
Nonverbal Counting in Humans: The Psychophysics of Number Representation (1999) (587)
The learning curve: implications of a quantitative analysis. (2004) (494)
The importance of proving the null. (2009) (402)
Variability signatures distinguish verbal from nonverbal counting for both large and small numbers (2001) (398)
The organization of action (1980) (389)
A portrait of the substrate for self-stimulation. (1981) (340)
Animal cognition: the representation of space, time and number. (1989) (293)
Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (2009) (234)
Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning (2009) (232)
Heading in the rat: Determination by environmental shape (1988) (222)
The rat approximates an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward: implications for the law of effect. (2001) (220)
Parametric analysis of brain stimulation reward in the rat: III. Effect of performance variables on the reward summation function. (1974) (212)
Numerical Subtraction in the Pigeon: Evidence for a Linear Subjective Number Scale (2001) (198)
Memory and the Computational Brain (2009) (180)
The neuroscience of learning: beyond the Hebbian synapse. (2013) (168)
Pimozide and amphetamine have opposing effects on the reward summation function (1984) (167)
The Replacement of General-Purpose Learning Models with Adaptively Specialized Learning Modules (2000) (159)
Computations on metric maps in mammals: getting oriented and choosing a multi-destination route. (1996) (156)
Language and the Origin of Numerical Concepts (2004) (145)
Time and Associative Learning. (2010) (141)
Does pimozide block the reinforcing effect of brain stimulation? (1982) (129)
Vervet monkeys as travelling salesmen (1997) (128)
The generative basis of natural number concepts (2008) (127)
Risk assessment in man and mouse (2009) (123)
Parametric analysis of brain stimulation reward in the rat: I. The transient process and the memory-containing process. (1974) (120)
Forebrain origins and terminations of the medial forebrain bundle metabolically activated by rewarding stimulation or by reward-blocking doses of pimozide (1985) (119)
Quantitative determination of the effects of catecholaminergic agonists and antagonists on the rewarding efficacy of brain stimulation (1987) (113)
Representations in animal cognition: An introduction (1990) (108)
Shape parameters explain data from spatial transformations: comment on Pearce et al. (2004) and Tommasi & Polli (2004). (2005) (102)
Sources of variability and systematic error in mouse timing behavior. (2004) (99)
Self-stimulation in the rat: quantitative characteristics of the reward pathway. (1978) (94)
Computer assisted analysis of 2-DG autoradiographs (1982) (93)
Lessons from animal learning for the study of cognitive development (1991) (93)
Reward versus performance in self-stimulation: electrode-specific effects of alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine on reward in the rat. (1977) (92)
Time to rethink the neural mechanisms of learning and memory (2014) (87)
Précis of Gallistel's The organization of action: A new synthesis (1981) (80)
Way-finding in displaced clock-shifted bees proves bees use a cognitive map (2014) (79)
The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior (2002) (78)
A microcomputer-based method for physiologically interpretable measurement of the rewarding efficacy of brain stimulation (1985) (78)
Affinity for the dopamine D2 receptor predicts neuroleptic potency in blocking the reinforcing effect of MFB stimulation (1983) (78)
The perception of probability. (2014) (76)
Is matching innate? (2007) (75)
Foraging for brain stimulation: toward a neurobiology of computation (1994) (72)
Acquisition of peak responding: What is learned? (2009) (71)
Kinetics of matching. (1994) (70)
Learning, motivation, and emotion (2002) (69)
Unilaterally activated systems in rats self-stimulating at sites in the medial forebrain bundle, medial prefrontal cortex, or locus coeruleus (1983) (66)
The incentive of brain-stimulation reward. (1969) (63)
Saturation of subjective reward magnitude as a function of current and pulse frequency. (1994) (62)
Conditioning from an information processing perspective (2003) (61)
Interval timing in genetically modified mice: a simple paradigm (2008) (61)
Nonverbal arithmetic in humans: Light from noise (2007) (60)
Parametric analysis of brain stimulation reward in the rat: II. Temporal summation in the reward system. (1974) (59)
Measuring the subjective magnitude of brain stimulation reward by titration with rate of reward. (1991) (58)
Mice take calculated risks (2012) (58)
Motivating effects in self-stimulation. (1966) (56)
Neuron Function Inferred from Behavioral and Electrophysiological Estimates of Refractory Period (1969) (55)
The Coding Question (2017) (53)
The Cultural and Evolutionary History of the Real Numbers (2001) (53)
Cross-domain transfer of quantitative discriminations: Is it all a matter of proportion? (2006) (50)
Autoshaped head poking in the mouse: a quantitative analysis of the learning curve. (2006) (50)
Computational Versus Associative Models of Simple Conditioning (2001) (50)
ELECTRICAL SELF-STIMULATION AND ITS THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS. (1964) (49)
The role of the dopaminergic projections in MFB self-stimulation (1986) (49)
What Can One Learn from a Strength-Duration Experiment? (1978) (49)
Pimozide blocks reinforcement but not priming from MFB stimulation in the rat (1982) (48)
Self-stimulating rats combine subjective reward magnitude and subjective reward rate multiplicatively. (1998) (48)
Extinction from a rationalist perspective (2012) (48)
The precision of locomotor odometry in humans (2009) (48)
The what and how of counting (1990) (47)
Subitizing: The preverbal counting process. (1991) (46)
[14C] 2-deoxyglucose uptake marks systems activated by rewarding brain stimulation (1977) (44)
Language and spatial frames of reference in mind and brain (2002) (44)
On the research of time past: the hunt for the substrate of memory (2017) (41)
Pavlovian contingencies and temporal information. (2006) (41)
It's the information! (2013) (41)
Specificity of brain stimulation reward in the rat. (1971) (39)
Medial Forebrain Bundle Lesions Fail to Structurally and Functionally Disconnect the Ventral Tegmental Area from Many Ipsilateral Forebrain Nuclei: Implications for the Neural Substrate of Brain Stimulation Reward (1998) (38)
Note on temporal summation in the reward system. (1974) (38)
Intact interval timing in circadian CLOCK mutants (2008) (36)
Conditioned [corrected] stimulus informativeness governs conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus associability. (2012) (36)
Commentary on Le Corre & Carey (2007) (36)
Reward saturation in medial forebrain bundle self-stimulation (1987) (35)
Effects of reinforcement-blocking doses of pimozide on neural system driven by rewarding stimulation of the MFB: A 14C-2-deoxyglucose analysis (1982) (35)
Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells (2021) (34)
Motivation as central organizing process: the psychophysical approach to its functional and neurophysiological analysis. (1975) (33)
Learning and Representation (2017) (32)
Subjective reward magnitude of medial forebrain stimulation as a function of train duration and pulse frequency. (1993) (31)
Deconstructing the law of effect (2005) (31)
Resolution-limiting factors in 2-deoxyglucose autoradiography. I. Factors other than Diffusion (1983) (31)
Finding numbers in the brain (2018) (30)
The function relating the subjective magnitude of brain stimulation reward to stimulation strength varies with site of stimulation (1992) (29)
Runway performance of rats for brain-stimulation or food reward: effects of hunger and priming. (1975) (27)
Reply to Cheung et al.: The cognitive map hypothesis remains the best interpretation of the data in honeybee navigation (2014) (27)
Mental Representations, Psychology of (2001) (27)
Intracranial stimulation and natural reward: Differential effects of trial spacing (1967) (27)
Incidence and magnitude of the "priming effect" in self-stimulating rats. (1973) (26)
Prelinguistic Thought (2011) (26)
Coordinate Transformations in the Genesis of Directed Action (1999) (25)
Destruction of the medial forebrain bundle caudal to the site of stimulation reduces rewarding efficacy but destruction rostrally does not. (1996) (25)
Effect of current on the maximum possible reward. (1991) (25)
Language Learning and Development (2011) (24)
Where Integers Come From (2008) (24)
Locating the engram: Should we look for plastic synapses or information-storing molecules? (2020) (24)
The variation in user drawn outlines on digital images: effects on quantitative autoradiography. (1990) (24)
Towards an integrated understanding of the biology of timing (2014) (23)
Bell, Magendie, and the proposals to restrict the use of animals in neurobehavioral research. (1981) (22)
Can a decay process explain the timing of conditioned responses? (1999) (22)
Introduction: The origins of numerical abilities (2018) (22)
Chapter 1 – Mental Magnitudes (2011) (21)
On the optimal pulse duration in electrical stimulation of the brain. (1974) (21)
Frequency, Contingency and the Information Processing Theory of Conditioning (2002) (21)
Characteristics of spatiotemporal integration in the priming and rewarding effects of medial forebrain bundle stimulation. (1991) (20)
From muscles to motivation. (1980) (20)
Contingency, contiguity, and causality in conditioning: Applying information theory and Weber's Law to the assignment of credit problem. (2019) (20)
Temporal landmarks: proximity prevails (2003) (19)
Theoretical implications of quantitative properties of interval timing and probability estimation in mouse and rat. (2017) (18)
The analytic and functional accuracy of a video densitometry system (1988) (18)
Bayesian change-point analysis reveals developmental change in a classic theory of mind task (2016) (17)
The physical basis of memory (2020) (17)
Counting versus subitizing versus the sense of number (1988) (17)
Temporal contingency (2014) (16)
Flawed foundations of associationism? Comments on Machado and Silva (2007). (2007) (15)
1.12 – Learning and Representation (2008) (15)
Time left in the mouse (2007) (15)
Information Theory, Memory, Prediction, and Timing in Associative Learning (2017) (15)
Minimum description length model selection in associative learning (2016) (14)
Chapter 6 – Subcortical Stimulation for Motivation and Reinforcement (1981) (14)
The Neural Mechanisms that Underlie Decision Making (2009) (14)
Navigation: Whence Our Sense of Direction? (2017) (14)
Classical conditioning as a nonstationary, multivariate time series analysis: A spreadsheet model (1992) (13)
Automated, quantitative cognitive/behavioral screening of mice: for genetics, pharmacology, animal cognition and undergraduate instruction. (2014) (13)
Classical Conditioning as an Adaptive Specialization: A Computational Model (1992) (13)
7 Decision Making What Can Evolution Do for Us ? (2012) (13)
Themes of Thought and Thinking (1999) (12)
Is Long-Term Potentiation a Plausible Basis for Memory? (1995) (12)
The Neurobiological Bases for the Computational Theory of Mind (2017) (12)
CHAPTER 8 – Space and Time (1994) (11)
Accurate step-hold tracking of smoothly varying periodic and aperiodic probability (2017) (11)
Screening for Mice that Remember Incorrectly (2001) (11)
Temporal integration in self-stimulation: a paradox. (1984) (10)
The role of the dopaminergic projections in MFB self-stimulation (1986) (10)
The Child’s Understanding of Number (1986) (10)
Self-stimulation: failure of pretrial stimulation to affect rats' electrode preference. (1969) (10)
Insect Navigation: Brains as Symbol- Processing Organs (1998) (10)
The Principle of Adaptive Specialization as It Applies to Learning and Memory (2003) (10)
Time-scale-invariant information-theoretic contingencies in discrimination learning. (2019) (10)
Evidence for a Mixed Timing and Counting Strategy in Mice Performing a Mechner Counting Task (2019) (9)
Does the perception of reward magnitude of self-administered electrical brain stimulation have a circadian rhythm? (1986) (9)
Screening for Learning and Memory Mutations: A New Approach. (2010) (9)
Bayes for Beginners: Probability and Likelihood (2015) (9)
The nature of learning and the functional architecture of the brain (2006) (9)
Dead Reckoning, Cognitive Maps, Animal Navigation and the Representation of Space: An Introduction (2008) (8)
On the evils of group averaging: Commentary on Nevin's “Resistance to extinction and behavioral momentum” (2012) (8)
Response to Dehaene (2001) (8)
Conditional Stimulus Informativeness Governs Conditioned StimulusUnconditioned Stimulus Associability (2012) (7)
Cognitive assessment of mice strains heterozygous for cell-adhesion genes reveals strain-specific alterations in timing (2014) (7)
The irrelevance of past pleasure (1978) (7)
Keeping Up With Psychological Science (1992) (7)
Journal of Experimental Psychology : Animal Behavior Processes Conditional Stimulus Informativeness Governs Conditioned Stimulus — Unconditioned Stimulus Associability (2012) (7)
Bilateral interactions in single units driven by MFB self-stimulation electrodes (1975) (6)
Time Has Come (2003) (6)
Conception, perception and the control of action (2002) (6)
Number and time in acquisition, extinction and recovery. (2019) (5)
A modular sense of place? (1985) (5)
Dopamine and reward: comment on Hernandez et al. (2006). (2006) (5)
CS Informativeness Governs CS-US Associability (2012) (5)
What We Have and Haven’t Learned (2016) (5)
Where meanings arise and how: Building on Shannon's foundations (2020) (5)
CHAPTER 7 – SELF-STIMULATION1 (1983) (4)
Dopamine encodes real-time reward availability and transitions between reward availability states on different timescales (2022) (4)
Numbers and brains (2017) (4)
Versatile behavior monitoring technique for rodents. (1971) (4)
Robert Rescorla: Time, Information and Contingency. (2021) (4)
Adapting without reinforcement (2012) (4)
Do 15 million cat neurons mediate the memory of a circle and a star? (1987) (3)
Quantitative Properties of the Creation and Activation of a Cell-Intrinsic Engram (2020) (3)
Author ' s personal copy Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning (2009) (3)
Motivation, Intention, and Emotion: Goal Directed Behavior from a Cognitive-Neuroethological Perspective (2021) (3)
"Conditional stimulus informativeness governs conditioned stimulus—Unconditioned stimulus associability": Correction to Ward et al. (2012). (2012) (3)
Temporal encoding: Relative and absolute representations of time guide behavior. (2020) (3)
Getting Numbers into Brains (2020) (3)
A Test of Gibbon's Feedforward Model of Matching (2002) (3)
Our understanding of neural codes rests on Shannon's foundations (2019) (3)
The Encoding of Spatial Information During Small-Set Enumeration (2010) (3)
Spatial Reasoning in Tenejapan Mayans Acknowledgments We Wish to Thank (2)
Cooperative Learning Groups and Streaming (2012) (2)
On rationalism and optimality: Responses to the Miller and Nevin Commentaries (2012) (2)
The approximate number system represents magnitude and precision (2021) (2)
RESPONSE TO DONAHOE REVIEW (2010) (2)
Comments on Panksepp et al (1969) (1)
The timing database: An open-access, live repository for interval timing studies (2023) (1)
Bringing Bayes and Shannon to the Study of Behavioural and Neurobiological Timing and Associative Learning (2022) (1)
8. Learning Organs (2010) (1)
Honey Bees Get Map Coordinates from the Dance (2022) (1)
The Origin of Concepts, S. Carey (Ed.), Oxford University Press, New York (2009). 608 pp., Price: $ 49.95, ISBN: 978-0-19-536763-8 (2011) (1)
Cultural influences on personalized e-learning systems (2012) (1)
Robert A. Rescorla (1940-2020). (2021) (1)
Constructive Induction (2010) (1)
Dead Reckoning in a Neural Network (2009) (1)
Affinity for the dopamine D2 receptor predicts neuroleptic potency in blocking the reinforcing effect of MFB stimulation GALLISTEL, C. R. AND A. J. DAVIS. PHARMACOL BIOCHEM BEHAV 19(5) 867–872, 1983 (1983) (1)
Sequential double labeling with 2 deoxyglucose a test of the primary assumption (1988) (1)
Matters of principle: Hierarchies, representations, and action (1981) (1)
Numbers and brains (2017) (0)
Author ' s personal copy 1 . 12 Learning and Representation (0)
Temporal contingency - 1-s2.0-S0376635713001873-main (2013) (0)
Title: Acquisition of Peak Responding: What is learned (2008) (0)
Behavior, Hierarchical Organization of (2001) (0)
Computing with Neurons (2009) (0)
More direction needed Representing Direction in Language and Space, edited by E. van der Zee, and J. Slack, Oxford University Press, 2003. $99.00 (hbk)/ $39.95 (pabk) (282 pages) ISBN 0 19 926018 4 (2004) (0)
Bayes for Beginners 3: The Prior in Probabilistic Inference (2015) (0)
Quantitative properties of the creation and activation of a cell-intrinsic duration-encoding engram (2022) (0)
The Nature of Learning (2009) (0)
Enumeration by location: Exploring the role of spatial information in numerosity judgments (2010) (0)
Learning Time and Space (2009) (0)
A Challenge to the Standard Interpretations of Conditioning and Choice Reviewed Work ( s ) : The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior by Charles (2007) (0)
Accurate step-hold tracking of smoothly varying periodic and aperiodic probability (2017) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1990) (0)
Neural Models of Interval Timing (2009) (0)
A Challenge to the Standard Interpretations of Conditioning and Choice@@@The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior (2003) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception The individuation of the senses (2016) (0)
Ac ce pt ed M an us cr ip t Acquisition of Peak Responding 1 Acquisition of Peak Responding : What is learned ? (2008) (0)
Probability estimation by mice in an interval timing task (2010) (0)
change-point analysis reveals developmental change in a classic theory of mind task. Cognitive Psychology (2016) (0)
Bayes for Beginners 2: The Prior (2015) (0)
Homeostatic Conditioning: Learning and Physiological Regulation . Barry R. Dworkin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993. xvi, 215 pp., illus. $23.95 or £19.25. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development. (1993) (0)
Matching behavior in self-stimulating rats-computational implications (1992) (0)
ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS Context-Dependent Encoding in Songbird Auditory Forebrain By MINGWEN DONG (2016) (0)
Conception, Perception and the Control of Action: Response to Majid (2003) (0)
Multiphasic neuronal transfer functions for representing temporal structure (1996) (0)
Fully Automated 24/7 Behavioral Screening for Mutations in Targeted Cognitive Mechanisms in the Mouse (2008) (0)
A Cognitive Neurogenetics Screening System with a Data‐Analysis Toolbox (2017) (0)
The Molecular Basis of Memory (2009) (0)
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2013) (0)
Psychophysical and autoradiographic depictions of the substrates for MFB and extra-MFB reward (1985) (0)
Mental Representations ; psychology of Mental Representations ; psychology of (0)
The Importance of Proving the Null — and How to Do It (0)
Current Directions in Psychological Science Computational Versus Associative Models of Simple Conditioning (2000) (0)
Editorial Board (2009) (0)
Discussion Commentary on Le Corre & (2007) (0)
Machinery of Cognition (2012) (0)
Honey Bees Extract Map Coordinates from the Dance (2021) (0)
Erratum: Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning Trends Neurosci. 32 (2009), 73–78 (2009) (0)
Honey bees infer source location from the dances of returning foragers (2023) (0)
The Minimum Description Length Principle (2016) (0)
Author ' s personal copy The generative basis of natural number concepts (2008) (0)
Homeostatic conditioning. (1993) (0)
The Modularity of Learning (2009) (0)
Review: A Challenge to the Standard Interpretations of Conditioning and Choice (2007) (0)
Effect of pimozide on neural systems driven by brain rewarding stimulation: A [14C] 2-deoxyglucose analysis. (1983) (0)

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