
Aaron Paul Blaisdell
Professor, Psychology, University of California Los Angeles
blaisdell@psych.ucla.edu
310-267-4589
Publications
- McCune K, Blaisdell A, Johnson-Ulrich Z, Sevchik A, Lukas D, MacPherson M, Seitz B, Logan CJ. Using repeatability of performance within and across contexts to validate measures of behavioral flexibility.. PeerJ, 2023.
- González VV, Ashikyan SA, Zhang Y, Rickard A, Yassine I, Romero-Sosa JL, Blaisdell AP, Izquierdo A. A special role for Anterior Cingulate Cortex, but not Orbitofrontal Cortex or Basolateral Amygdala, in choices involving information.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- González VV, Blaisdell AP. Inhibition and paradoxical choice.. Learning & behavior, 2023.
- González VV, Sadeghi S, Tran L, Blaisdell AP. The conjunction fallacy in rats.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2023.
- Flaim M, Guo J, Blaisdell AP. Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick's law.. Behavioural processes, 2023.
- Flaim M, Blaisdell AP. The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons.. Learning & behavior, 2023.
- Seitz BM, Hoang IB, DiFazio LE, Blaisdell AP, Sharpe MJ. Dopamine errors drive excitatory and inhibitory components of backward conditioning in an outcome-specific manner.. Current biology : CB, 2022.
- Blaisdell AP, Schroeder JE. Evidence for object-place binding in pigeons in a sequence-learning procedure.. Learning & behavior, 2022.
- González VV, Seitz BM, Formaker R, Blaisdell AP. Elements of a compound elicit little conditioned reinforcement.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 2021.
- Bouchekioua Y, Kosaki Y, Watanabe S, Blaisdell AP. Higher-Order Conditioning in the Spatial Domain.. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2021.
- Seitz BM, Blaisdell AP, Sharpe MJ. Higher-Order Conditioning and Dopamine: Charting a Path Forward.. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2021.
- González VV, Blaisdell AP. The role of inhibition in the suboptimal choice task.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 2021.
- Seitz BM, Tomiyama AJ, Blaisdell AP. Eating behavior as a new frontier in memory research.. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2021.
- Seitz BM, McCune K, MacPherson M, Bergeron L, Blaisdell AP, Logan CJ. Using touchscreen equipped operant chambers to study animal cognition. Benefits, limitations, and advice.. PloS one, 2021.
- Flaim M, Blaisdell AP. The comparative analysis of intelligence.. Psychological bulletin, 2020.
- Bouchekioua Y, Blaisdell AP, Kosaki Y, Tsutsui-Kimura I, Craddock P, Mimura M, Watanabe S. Spatial inference without a cognitive map: the role of higher-order path integration.. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2020.
- Seitz BM, Flaim ME, Blaisdell AP. Evidence that novel flavors unconditionally suppress weight gain in the absence of flavor-calorie associations.. Learning & behavior, 2020.
- Blaisdell AP. Mental imagery in animals: Learning, memory, and decision-making in the face of missing information.. Learning & behavior, 2019.
- Thomas CJ, Rothschild J, Earnest CP, Blaisdell A. The Effects of Energy Drink Consumption on Cognitive and Physical Performance in Elite League of Legends Players.. Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2019.
- Blaisdell AP. Learning and performance: A tribute to the contributions of Ralph R. Miller.. Behavioural processes, 2018.
- Schroeder J, Garlick D, Blaisdell AP. ARENA 2.0: The next generation automated remote environmental navigation apparatus to facilitate cross-species comparisons in behavior and cognition.. Behavior research methods, 2018.
- Blaisdell AP, Schroeder JE, Fast CD. Spatial integration during performance in pigeons.. Behavioural processes, 2017.
- Kosarussavadi S, Pennington ZT, Covell J, Blaisdell AP, Schlinger BA. Across sex and age: Learning and memory and patterns of avian hippocampal gene expression.. Behavioral neuroscience, 2017.
- Shragai T, Ping X, Arakaki C, Garlick D, Blumstein DT, Blaisdell AP. Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues.. PeerJ, 2017.
- Blaisdell AP, Biedermann T, Sosa E, Abuchaei A, Youssef N, Bradesi S. An obesogenic refined low-fat diet disrupts attentional and behavioral control processes in a vigilance task in rats.. Behavioural processes, 2017.
- Garlick D, Fountain SB, Blaisdell AP. Serial pattern learning in pigeons: Rule-based or associative?. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 2016.
- Fast CD, Biedermann T, Blaisdell AP. Imagine that! Cue-evoked representations guide rat behavior during ambiguous situations.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 2016.
- Fast CD, Flesher MM, Nocera NA, Fanselow MS, Blaisdell AP. Learning history and cholinergic modulation in the dorsal hippocampus are necessary for rats to infer the status of a hidden event.. Hippocampus, 2016.
- Leising KJ, Wong J, Blaisdell AP. Extinction and spontaneous recovery of spatial behavior in pigeons.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 2015.
- Ping X, Lee JS, Garlick D, Jiang Z, Blaisdell AP. Behavioral evidence illuminating the visual abilities of the terrestrial Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus.. Behavioural processes, 2015.
- Leising KJ, Wong J, Ruprecht CM, Blaisdell AP. Blocking between landmarks during 2-D (touchscreen) and 3-D (ARENA) search tasks with pigeons.. Learning & behavior, 2014.
- Blaisdell AP, Lau YL, Telminova E, Lim HC, Fan B, Fast CD, Garlick D, Pendergrass DC. Food quality and motivation: a refined low-fat diet induces obesity and impairs performance on a progressive ratio schedule of instrumental lever pressing in rats.. Physiology & behavior, 2014.
- Bouchekioua Y, Miller HC, Craddock P, Blaisdell AP, Molet M. Spatial integration of boundaries in a 3D virtual environment.. Acta psychologica, 2013.
- Blaisdell AP, Pottenger BC, Torday JS. From heart beats to health recipes: The role of fractal physiology in the Ancestral Health movement.. Journal of evolution and health, 2013.
- Watanabe NM, Stahlman WD, Blaisdell AP, Garlick D, Fast CD, Blumstein DT. Quantifying personality in the terrestrial hermit crab: different measures, different inferences.. Behavioural processes, 2012.
- Waldmann MR, Schmid M, Wong J, Blaisdell AP. Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning.. Animal cognition, 2012.
- Biedermann T, Garlick D, Blaisdell AP. Food choice in the laboratory pigeon.. Behavioural processes, 2012.
- Ryan KM, Blumstein DT, Blaisdell AP, Stahlman WD. Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): implications for attention.. Behavioural processes, 2012.
- Leising KJ, Sawa K, Blaisdell AP. Factors that influence negative summation in a spatial-search task with pigeons.. Behavioural processes, 2012.
- Cook RG, Katz JS, Blaisdell AP. Temporal properties of visual search in pigeon target localization.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2012.
- Fast CD, Blaisdell AP. Rats are sensitive to ambiguity.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2011.
- Leising KJ, Garlick D, Blaisdell AP. Overshadowing between landmarks on the touchscreen and in arena with pigeons.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2011.
- Racey D, Young ME, Garlick D, Pham JN, Blaisdell AP. Pigeon and human performance in a multi-armed bandit task in response to changes in variable interval schedules.. Learning & behavior, 2011.
- Stahlman WD, Blaisdell AP. The Modulation of Operant Variation by the Probability, Magnitude, and Delay of Reinforcement.. Learning and motivation, 2011.
- Stahlman WD, Chan AA, Blumstein DT, Fast CD, Blaisdell AP. Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus).. Behavioural processes, 2011.
- Garlick D, Gant DJ, Brakel LA, Blaisdell AP. Attributional and relational processing in pigeons.. Frontiers in psychology, 2011.
- Fridman GY, Blair HT, Blaisdell AP, Judy JW. Perceived intensity of somatosensory cortical electrical stimulation.. Experimental brain research, 2010.
- Stahlman WD, Young ME, Blaisdell AP. Response variability in pigeons in a Pavlovian task.. Learning & behavior, 2010.
- Stahlman WD, Roberts S, Blaisdell AP. Effect of reward probability on spatial and temporal variation.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2010.
- Leising KJ, Garlick D, Parenteau M, Blaisdell AP. Behavioral research in pigeons with ARENA: an automated remote environmental navigation apparatus.. Behavioural processes, 2009.
- Stahlman WD, Blaisdell AP. Blocking of spatial control by landmarks in rats.. Behavioural processes, 2009.
- Leising KJ, Blaisdell AP. Associative Basis of Landmark Learning and Integration in Vertebrates.. Comparative cognition & behavior reviews, 2009.
- Leising KJ, Wong J, Waldmann MR, Blaisdell AP. The special status of actions in causal reasoning in rats.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2008.
- Badelt SW, Blaisdell AP. Capacitive sensors for detecting proximity and response.. Behavior research methods, 2008.
- Leising KJ, Sawa K, Blaisdell AP. Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats.. Learning & behavior, 2007.
- Nakajima S, Takahashi K, Blaisdell AP. An assessment of context-specificity of the CS-preexposure effect in Pavlovian excitatory and inhibitory conditioning.. Behavioural processes, 2006.
- Cook RG, Blaisdell AP. Short-term item memory in successive same-different discriminations.. Behavioural processes, 2006.
- Blaisdell AP, Sawa K, Leising KJ, Waldmann MR. Causal reasoning in rats.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2006.
- Roper KL, Chaponis DM, Blaisdell AP. Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2005.
- Sawa K, Leising KJ, Blaisdell AP. Sensory preconditioning in spatial learning using a touch screen task in pigeons.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2005.
- Cook RG, Levison DG, Gillett SR, Blaisdell AP. Capacity and limits of associative memory in pigeons.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2005.
- Blaisdell AP, Cook RG. Two-item same-different concept learning in pigeons.. Learning & behavior, 2005.
- Denniston JC, Blaisdell AP, Miller RR. Temporal coding in conditioned inhibition: analysis of associative structure of inhibition.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2004.
- Blaisdell AP, Cook RG. Integration of spatial maps in pigeons.. Animal cognition, 2004.
- Chang RC, Blaisdell AP, Miller RR. Backward conditioning: mediation by the context.. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2003.
- Blaisdell AP. The S-R information stream: where's the filter?. Integrative physiological and behavioral science : the official journal of the Pavlovian Society, 2003.