2022

O’Donoghue, E. M., Broschard, M. B., Freeman, J. F., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2022).  The Lords of the Rings:  People and pigeons take different paths mastering the Concentric-Rings categorization task.  Cognition, 218, 104920.

O’Donoghue, E. M., Diaz, F., Navarro, V. M. & Wasserman, E. A.  (2022).  It’s not all the same to pigeons:  Representations of difference may be shared across species.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 882-890.

Wasserman, E. A., & Castro, L.  (2022).  The Rescorla-Wagner Model:  The culmination of Hume’s theory of causation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 315-320.

O’Donoghue, E. M., Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2022).  Hierarchical and configural control in conditional discrimination learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 370-382.

2021

Hochmann, J-R., Wasserman, E., & Carey, S.  (2021).  Editorial overview: Same-different conceptualization.  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, iii-v.

Wasserman, E. A., Young, M. E., & Castro, L.  (2021).  Mechanisms of same–different conceptualization: entropy happens!  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 19-28.

O’Donoghue, E. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2021).  Pigeons proficiently switch among four tasks without cost.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 150-162.

Castro, L., Yang, S., Savic, O., Sloutsky, V., & Wasserman, E.  (2021).  Not all exceptions are created equal:  Learning of exceptions in pigeons’ categorization.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1344-1353.

Broschard, M. B., Kim, J., Love, B. C., Wasserman, E. A., & Freeman, J. H.  (2021).  Prelimbic cortex maintains attention to category-relevant information and flexibly updates category representation.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 185, 1-14.

Delamater, A. R., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2021).  Comparative cognition—Conceptual and methodological advancements.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 219-222.

Castro, L., Wiger, E. R., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2021).  Focusing and shifting attention in pigeon category learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 371-383.

Diaz, F., O’Donoghue, E. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2021).  Two-item conditional same-different categorization in pigeons:  Finding differences.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 455-463.

Wasserman, E. A., & Castro, L.  (2021).  Assessing attention in category learning by animals.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 495-502.

Smirnova, A. A., Obozova, T. A., Zorina, Z. A., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2021).  How do crows and parrots come to spontaneously perceive relations-between-relations?  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 109-117.

Chandel, H., Boring, M., Zentall, T. R., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2021).  Should I stay or should I go?  Pigeons’ (Columba livia) performance of a foraging task has implications for optimal foraging theory and serial pattern learning.  Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135, 266-272.

2020

Castro, L., Savic, O., Navarro, V. M., Sloutsky, V., & Wasserman, E.  (2020).  Selective and distributed attention in human and pigeon category learning.  Cognition, 204, 104350.

Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2020).  Bidirectional conditioning:  Revisiting Asratyan’s ‘alternating’ training technique.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 171, 1-9.

Navarro, V. M., Wasserman, E. A., & Slomka, P.  (2020).  Taking pigeons to heart:  Birds proficiently diagnose human cardiac disease.  Learning and Behavior, 48, 9-21.

O’Donoghue, E. M., Broschard, M. B., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2020).  Pigeons exhibit flexibility but not rule formation in dimensional learning, stimulus generalization, and task switching.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 107-123.

2019

Peissig, J. J., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I.  (2019).  Pigeons spontaneously form three-dimensional shape categories.  Behavioural Processes, 158, 70-76.

Broschard, M. B., Kim, J., Love, B. C., Wasserman, E. A., & Freeman, J. H.  (2019).  Selective attention in rat visual category learning.  Learning and Memory, 26, 84-92.

Wasserman, E., Levenson, R., & Navarro, V.  (2019).  Principle behind Google’s April Fools’ pigeon prank proves more than a joke.  The Conversation.  https://theconversation.com/principle-behind-googles-april-fools-pigeon-prank-proves-more-than-a-joke-99565

Navarro, V. M., Jani, R., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2019).  Pigeon category learning:  Revisiting the Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (1961) tasks.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 45, 174-184.

Rosenbaum, D. A., Fournier, L. R., Levy-Tzedek, S., McBride, D. M., Rosenthal, R., Sauerberger, K., VonderHaar, R. L., Wasserman, E. A., & Zentall, T. R.  (2019).  Sooner rather than later:  Precrastination rather than procrastination.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 229-233.

Sheridan, C. L., Castro, L., Fonseca, S., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2019).  The role of category density in pigeons’ tracking of relevant information.  Learning and Behavior, 47, 234-244.

De Corte, B. J., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2019).  Nonhuman sequence learning findings argue against Hoerl and McCormack’s two systems of temporal cognition.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e248.

Wasserman, E. A.  (2019).  Precrastination:  The fierce urgency of now.  Learning and Behavior, 47, 7-28.

2018

Castro, L., Wasserman, E. A., & Lauffer, M. C.  (2018).  Unsupervised learning of complex associations in an animal model.  Cognition, 178, 28-33.

Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2018).  Retrospective revaluation.  In J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior.  Heidelberg:  Springer-Verlag.

Vyazovska, O. V., Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2018).  Pigeons deploy selective attention to efficiently learn a stagewise multidimensional visual discrimination task.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 44, 162-167.

Darby, K. P., Castro, L., Wasserman, E. A., & Sloutsky, V. M.  (2018).  Cognitive flexibility and memory in pigeons, human children, and adults.  Cognition, 177, 30-40.

Kim, J., Castro, L., Wasserman, E. A., & Freeman, J. H.  (2018).  Dorsal hippocampus is necessary for visual categorization in rats.  Hippocampus, 28, 392-405.

2017

Wasserman, E. A., Castro, L., & Fagot, J.  (2017).  Relational thinking in animals and humans:  From percepts to concepts.  American Psychological Association Handbook of Comparative Cognition, Vol. 2, J. Call (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 359-384.

Lauffer, M. C., Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Chrysippus’ pigeon:  Exclusion-based responding in an avian model.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, 139-146.

Wasserman, E. A., & Thompson, R. K. R.  (2017).  Capuchin monkeys can make and use stone tools.  Learning and Behavior, 45, 103-104.

García-Gallardo, D., Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Assessing the acquisition of anticipatory responding in the pigeon using reaction time.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, 197-203.

Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Feature predictiveness and selective attention in pigeons’ categorization learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, 231-242.

Wasserman, E. A., & Scerri, E. R.  (2017).  Forget the insight of a lone genius – innovation is an evolving process of trial and error.  The Conversation.  https://theconversation.com/forget-the-insight-of-a-lone-genius-innovation-is-an-evolving-process-of-trial-and-error-77760

Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Relational concept learning in birds.  In C. ten Cate & S. D. Healy (Eds.), Avian cognition.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press, pp. 229-248.

Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Perceptual and abstract category learning in pigeons.  In Handbook of categorization in cognitive science.  In H. Cohen & C. Lefebvre (Eds.).  Cambridge, MA:  Elsevier.  Pp. 709-732.

De Corte, B. J., Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Non-cortical magnitude coding of space and time by pigeons.  Current Biology, 27, R1249–R1267.

Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  He’s Pavlov and we’re the dogs:  How Pavlovian conditioning really works in human psychology.  The Conversation.  https://theconversation.com/hes-pavlov-and-were-the-dogs-how-associative-learning-really-works-in-human-psychology-86191

Lazareva, O. F., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2017).  Categories and concepts in animals.  In R. Menzel (Ed.), Learning theory and behavior.  Learning and memory:  A comprehensive reference 2e, Vol. 1 (J. Byrne, Ed.), pp. 111-139.  Oxford:  Elsevier.

2016

Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Executive control and task switching in pigeons.  Cognition, 146, 121-135.

Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Stepwise conceptualization in pigeons.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 44-50.

Wasserman, E. A., & Cullen, P.  (2016).  Evolution of the violin:  The Law of Effect in action.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 116-122.

Couto, K. C., Navarro, V. M., Smith, T. R., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Concept learning without differential reinforcement in pigeons by means of contextual cueing.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 221-227.

Wasserman, E. A.  (Ed.).  (2016).  Comparative cognition.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 105, 1-229.  (Special Issue).

Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Conceptualization in pigeons:  The evolution of a paradigm.  Behavioural Processes, 123, 4-14.

Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Attentional shifts in categorization learning:  Perseveration but not learned irrelevance.  Behavioural Processes, 123, 63-73.

Lazareva, O. F., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  No evidence for feature binding by pigeons in a change detection task.  Behavioural Processes, 123, 90-106.

Soto, F. A., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Promoting rotational-invariance in object recognition despite experience with only a single view.  Behavioural Processes, 123, 107-113.

Kim, J., Wasserman, E. A., Castro, L., & Freeman, J. H.  (2016).  Anterior cingulate cortex inactivation impairs rodent visual selective attention and prospective memory.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, 75-90.

Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  What we make and do can evolve with no end in sight.  This View of Life, https://thisviewoflife.com/what-we-make-and-do-can-evolve-with-no-end-in-sight/

Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Thinking abstractly like a duck(ling).  Science, 353, 222-223.

Vyazovska, O. V., Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Stagewise multidimensional visual discrimination by pigeons.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 106, 58-74.

Roembke, T. C., Wasserman, E. A., & McMurray, B.  (2016).  Learning in rich networks involves both positive and negative associations.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 145, 1062-1074.

Wasserman, E. A.  (2016).  Face facts:  Even nonhuman animals discriminate human faces.  Learning and Behavior, 44, 307-308.