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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sara J. Shettleworth is an American-born, Canadian experimental psychologist and zoologist. Her research focuses on animal cognition. She is professor emerita of psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.
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- Cognition, evolution, and behavior (1998) (1729)
- Animal cognition and animal behaviour (2001) (362)
- Cognition, evolution, and behavior, 2nd ed. (2010) (317)
- Bayesian integration of spatial information. (2007) (294)
- Constraints on Learning (1972) (291)
- How marsh tits find their hoards: the roles of site preference and spatial memory. (1982) (281)
- Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology (2010) (229)
- Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: Hunger, environment, and food reinforcement. (1975) (218)
- Hippocampal lesions impair memory for location but not color in passerine birds. (1996) (213)
- Varieties of learning and memory in animals. (1993) (169)
- Learning about environmental geometry: an associative model. (2007) (154)
- An analysis of contrast effects in multiple schedules. (1966) (144)
- Hippocampal volume and food-storing behavior are related in parids. (1995) (128)
- Detecting metamemory in nonverbal subjects: A test with pigeons. (1999) (124)
- Tracking a fluctuating environment: a study of sampling (1988) (118)
- The evolution of comparative cognition: Is the snark still a boojum? (2009) (113)
- Detection of cryptic prey: search image or search rate? (1992) (110)
- Matching location and color of a compound stimulus: Comparison of a food-storing and a nonstoring bird species. (1995) (110)
- Spatial memory in food-storing birds (1990) (104)
- Hippocampus and memory in a food-storing and in a nonstoring bird species. (1996) (99)
- Risk aversion in pigeons. (1987) (99)
- Memory in Food-Hoarding Birds (1983) (99)
- Behavioral adaptation to fixed-interval and fixed-time food delivery in golden hamsters. (1977) (98)
- Modularity, comparative cognition and human uniqueness (2012) (92)
- Behavioral Flexibility Positively Correlated with Relative Brain Volume in Predatory Bats (2006) (90)
- Where Is the Comparison in Comparative Cognition? Alternative Research Programs (1993) (89)
- Memory without awareness: pigeons do not show metamemory in delayed matching to sample. (2008) (88)
- Spatial memory of paridae: comparison of a storing and a non-storing species, the coal tit, Parus ater, and the great tit, P. major (1990) (86)
- Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: brain stimulation reinforcement for seven action patterns. (1980) (86)
- Memory and Hippocampal Specialization in Food-Storing Birds: Challenges for Research on Comparative Cognition (2003) (84)
- RELATIVE RATE OF RESPONSE AND RELATIVE MAGNITUDE OF REINFORCEMENT IN MULTIPLE SCHEDULES. (1965) (84)
- Wavelength preferences and brightness cues in the water finding behaviour of sea turtles. (1968) (83)
- Stored and encountered seeds: A comparison of two spatial memory tasks in marsh tits and chickadees. (1986) (75)
- The geometric module in the rat: independence of shape and feature learning in a food finding task (2004) (74)
- Foraging as Operant Behavior and Operant Behavior as Foraging: What Have We Learned? (1988) (64)
- The role of novelty in learned avoidance of unpalatable ‘Prey’ by domestic chicks (Gallus Gallus) (1972) (63)
- Effects of season and photoperiod on food storing by black-capped chickadees, Parus atricapillus (1995) (61)
- Do animals have insight, and what is insight anyway? (2012) (60)
- What-where-when memory in pigeons. (2006) (58)
- ‘Neuroecologists’ are not made of straw (2002) (58)
- Multiple systems for spatial learning: dead reckoning and beacon homing in rats. (2005) (56)
- Animal navigation: A synthesis (2011) (55)
- A comparative study of geometric rule learning by nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana), pigeons (Columba livia), and jackdaws (Corvus monedula). (2002) (53)
- An associative model of geometry learning: a modified choice rule. (2008) (50)
- Effects of photoperiod on food‐storing and the hippocampus in birds (1995) (49)
- Spatial memory of food-storing tits (Parus ater and P. atricapillus): comparison of storing and nonstoring tasks (1990) (48)
- Handling time and choice in pigeons. (1985) (43)
- Uncertainty in pigeons (2003) (42)
- Comparative Studies of Memory in Food Storing Birds (1995) (42)
- One-trial associative memory in black-capped chickadees (1992) (41)
- Animals foraging in the lab: Problems and promises. (1989) (40)
- Place versus response learning revisited: tests of blocking on the radial maze. (2005) (39)
- Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition (2012) (34)
- How pigeons estimate rates of prey encounter. (1992) (34)
- Animal Behaviour: Planning for breakfast (2007) (33)
- Stimulus relevance in the control of drinking and conditioned fear responses in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). (1972) (33)
- Proactive interference, recency, and associative strength: Comparisons of black-capped chickadees and dark-eyed juncos (1998) (32)
- Finding a goal on dry land and in the water: differential effects of disorientation on spatial learning (2001) (32)
- Divided attention, memory, and spatial discrimination in food-storing and nonstoring birds, black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla) and dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis). (2002) (31)
- Reinforcement and the Organization of Behavior in Golden Hamsters: Hunger (1975) (31)
- Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: Punishment of three action patterns (1978) (29)
- CHAPTER 7 – Biological Approaches to the Study of Learning (1994) (28)
- Adaptive Specializations of Spatial Cognition in Food-storing Birds? Approaches to Testing a Comparative Hypothesis (1998) (28)
- Spatial list learning in black-capped chickadees (1994) (27)
- On the orientation circle of the leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea (1975) (26)
- What do rats learn about the geometry of object arrays? Tests with exploratory behavior. (2005) (24)
- Time horizon and choice by pigeons in a prey-selection task (1991) (23)
- The role of spatial and temporal contiguity in defensive burying in rats (1981) (22)
- Animal Cognition: Deconstructing Avian Insight (2009) (22)
- Time horizons of pigeons on a two-armed bandit (1989) (22)
- Darwin, Tinbergen, and the Evolution of Comparative Cognition (2012) (20)
- Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: Pavlovian conditioning with food and shock unconditioned stimuli. (1978) (20)
- Further studies of the sea-finding mechanism in green turtle hatchlings. (1974) (18)
- Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: Sunflower seed and nest paper reinforcers (1978) (17)
- Competition among spatial cues in a naturalistic food-carrying task (2003) (16)
- Book Review: Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered (2004) (15)
- Reinforcement and the Organisation of Behaviour in Golden Hamsters: Differential Overshadowing of a CS by different Responses (1981) (15)
- Defensive burying in rats and hamsters (1981) (14)
- Looking for inhibition of return in pigeons (2005) (14)
- Taking the best for learning (2005) (13)
- Animal metacognition? It's all in the methods. (2003) (12)
- Constraints on conditioning in the writings of konorski (1979) (12)
- Natural History and Evolution of Learning in Nonhuman Mammals (1984) (12)
- Female mate choice in swordtails and mollies: symmetry assessment or Weber's law? (1999) (11)
- Rats prefer handling food to waiting for it (1986) (11)
- The role of shifting in choice behavior of pigeons on a two-armed bandit (1990) (10)
- Individual differences in choice of food items by pigeons (1987) (10)
- Internal sense of direction and landmark use in pigeons (Columba livia). (2005) (10)
- Foraging, Memory, and Constraints on Learning (1985) (9)
- Do animals know that they know? (2001) (9)
- Studying mental states is not a research program for comparative cognition (2007) (8)
- Commentary: What are behavior systems and what use are they? (1994) (8)
- An ecological theory of learning: Good goal, poor strategy (1981) (8)
- Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development: The varieties of learning in development: toward a common framework (1994) (7)
- Intelligence: More than a matter of associations (1987) (7)
- Two types of learning (1984) (5)
- Associative models of instrumental learning: a response to Dupuis and Dawson. (2013) (5)
- FUNCTION, CAUSATION, EVOLUTION, AND DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR: A REVIEW OF THE ANIMAL IN ITS WORLD, BY N. TINBERGEN1 (1974) (5)
- Metacognition in animals: It's all in the methods (2003) (3)
- Questions about foraging (1985) (3)
- Effects of handling time and changing food availability on patch choice in pigeons (1984) (3)
- Thoughts and impressions (1993) (3)
- Cognition: theories of mind in animals and humans (2009) (2)
- Pigeons Still Don't Have Metamemory: (603982013-034) (2007) (2)
- Cognition: theories of mind in animals and humans. (2009) (2)
- Cognitive science: Rank inferred by reason (2004) (2)
- From one subjectivity to another (1990) (2)
- The Smartest Animals on the Planet: Extraordinary Tales of the Natural World's Cleverest Creatures.BySally Boysen; with a contribution from, Deborah Custance.Published byFirefly Books, Buffalo (New York),in association withQuarto Publishing, London (United Kingdom). $35.00. 192 p.; ill.; index. 978‐ (2009) (1)
- Part 16. Phylogeny and evolution (2007) (0)
- What the brain computes (1991) (0)
- Sara J. Shettleworth (2010) (0)
- Representing high-level cognitive processes (2001) (0)
- Timing and time perception J. Gibbon (1985) (0)
- What is the Study of Animal Learning About (1986) (0)
- Behavioral mechanissms in evolutionary ecology (1995) (0)
- Distraction can serve as implicit rehearsal to boost older adults' recall performance: (520592012-627) (2013) (0)
- Bird watching (1994) (0)
- Comparative cognition: Function and mechanism in lab and field. A tribute to the contributions of Alex Kacelnik (2012) (0)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science: Animal cognition (2012) (0)
- Constraints on learning or laws of performance? (1988) (0)
- Animal behavior: Theory and research. (1976) (0)
- A Mature Introduction to Animal Learning. (1979) (0)
- EFFECTS OF LEARNING CONSTRAINTS AND BEHAVI- OURAL ORGANIZATION ON THE ASSOCIATION OF VOCALIZATIONS AND HUNGER IN BURMESE RED JUNGLEFOWL CHICKS (0)
- Making a difference (2004) (0)
- Foraging : Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Volume Vi (2013) (0)
- Food hoarding in animals: by Stephen B. Vander Wall, University of Chicago Press, 1990. £60.75/$87.50 hbk, £23.95/$34.50 pbk (xii + 445 pages) ISBN 0 226 84734 9 (1990) (0)
- Book Review: Spatial Representation in Animals (1999) (0)
- The "Garcia Effect" and Other Learning Mechanisms in Food Selection: The State of Current Research. (1978) (0)
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