Aaron P Blaisdell
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Recent Articles
1.
Flaim M, Blaisdell A
Anim Cogn
. 2024 Nov;
27(1):74.
PMID: 39488653
A well replicated result in humans is that performance, whether good or bad, is consistent across a wide variety of cognitive tasks. Factor analysis extracts one factor that can account...
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Anselme P, Blaisdell A
J Comp Psychol
. 2024 May;
138(4):276-288.
PMID: 38753383
Organisms are believed to attempt to maximize their net energy intake while foraging. The paradoxical choice task shows that they may instead prefer to obtain information rather than primary reward...
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Cook R, Blaisdell A
J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn
. 2024 Apr;
50(4):247-253.
PMID: 38661630
Separating and isolating the contributions of perception to concept formation in animals has been a long-standing and persistent challenge. Here we describe a novel approach to assessing this question by...
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Gonzalez V, Zhang Y, Ashikyan S, Rickard A, Yassine I, Romero-Sosa J, et al.
Cereb Cortex
. 2024 Apr;
34(4).
PMID: 38610085
Subjects are often willing to pay a cost for information. In a procedure that promotes paradoxical choices, animals choose between a richer option followed by a cue that is rewarded...
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Gonzalez V, Ashikyan S, Zhang Y, Rickard A, Yassine I, Romero-Sosa J, et al.
bioRxiv
. 2023 Aug;
PMID: 37577596
Subjects often are willing to pay a cost for information. In a procedure that promotes paradoxical choices, animals choose between a richer option followed by a cue that is rewarded...
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Gonzalez V, Blaisdell A
Learn Behav
. 2023 May;
51(4):458-467.
PMID: 37145372
The present study evaluated the role of inhibition in paradoxical choice in pigeons. In a paradoxical choice procedure, pigeons receive a choice between two alternatives. Choosing the "suboptimal" alternative is...
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Gonzalez V, Sadeghi S, Tran L, Blaisdell A
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2023 Feb;
30(4):1564-1574.
PMID: 36795245
Humans and other animals are capable of reasoning. However, there are overwhelming examples of errors or anomalies in reasoning. In two experiments, we studied if rats, like humans, estimate the...
8.
Flaim M, Guo J, Blaisdell A
Behav Processes
. 2023 Jan;
206:104838.
PMID: 36716901
Being able to correctly identify a target when presented with multiple possible alternatives, or increasing uncertainty, is highly beneficial in a wide variety of situations. This has been intensely investigated...
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Flaim M, Blaisdell A
Learn Behav
. 2023 Jan;
51(3):281-294.
PMID: 36624334
Pigeons are commonly utilized in psychological research, and their cognitive abilities have been thoroughly investigated. Yet very little is known about how these abilities change with age. In contrast, age-related...
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Seitz B, Hoang I, DiFazio L, Blaisdell A, Sharpe M
Curr Biol
. 2022 Jun;
32(14):3210-3218.e3.
PMID: 35752165
For over two decades, phasic activity in midbrain dopamine neurons was considered synonymous with the prediction error in temporal-difference reinforcement learning. Central to this proposal is the notion that reward-predictive...