Research Interests:

Fully automated, highly diagnostic behavioral screens for abilities in learning and memory in the mouse. Also, animal cognition: spatial, temporal, and numerical learning and reasoning in animals.

Online preprints and reprints:

Gallistel, C. R. (2007). Comment on Machado and di Silva, in American Psychologist(62), pp. 682-685.

Gallistel, C. R. (2007). Commentary on Le Corre & Carey, in Cognition, 105(2), pp. 439-445.

Balci, F., Papachristos, E.B., Gallistel, C.R., Brunner, D., Gibson, J. & Schumyatsky, G.P. (2007), in press Interval timing in genetically modified mice: a simple paradigm. Genes, Brains and Behavior

Gallistel, C.R. (2007), in press The foundational abstractions. in Piattelli-Palmirini, M, Uriagereka, J.., & Salaburu, P. (Eds) Of minds and language: The Basque country encounter with Noam Chomsky. New York: Oxford University Press

Cordes, S., King, A.P., & Gallistel, C.R. (2007) Time left in the mouse. Behavioural Processes, 74, pp. 142-151.

Gallistel, C. R. (2006). Dopamine and reward: Comment on Hernandez et al. in Behavioral Neuroscience, 120(4), pp. 992-994.

Gallistel, C.R., King, A.P., Gottlieb, D., Balci, F., Papachristos, E.B., Szalecki, M., Carbone, K.S. (2007) Is matching innate? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Matlab Code for Matching Simulations (JEAB, 2007)

Gallistel, C.R. (in press, 2006) Learning and representation. To appear in Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. R. Menzel (Vol Editor) & J. Byrne (Editor). New York: Elsevier

Papachristos, E. B., & Gallistel, C.R. (2006) Autoshaped Head Poking in the Mouse: A Quantitative Analysis of the Learning Curve. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,85, pp. 293-308.

Balsam, P.D., Fairhurst, S., & Gallistel, C.R. (2006) Pavlovian contingencies and temporal information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32(3),284-294.

Cordes S., Gallistel C.R., Gelman R., & Latham P. Nonverbal Arithmetic: A Noise Analysis Perception and Psychophysics

Gallistel, C.R. (2006) The nature of learning and the functional architecture of the brain. In Q. Jing, et al (Eds) Psychological Science Around the World, vol 1. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology. Sussex: Psychology Press. pp. 63-71

Gallistel, C.R. (2007) Learning Organs.English original of L'apprentissage de matières distinctes exige des organes distincts. In J. Bricmont & J. Franck (Eds) Cahier n° 88: Noam Chomsky. Paris: L'Herne, pp. 181-187

Gallistel, C.R. (2005) Deconstructing the law of effect. Games and Economic Behavior. R 52(2), 410-423

Balci, F. & Gallistel, C.R. (2006) Cross-Domain Transfer of Quantitative Discriminations: Is it All a Matter of Proportion? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, pp. 636-642

C. R. Gallistel, Rochel Gelman (2005) Mathematical Cognition
In K Holyoak & R. Morrison (Eds) The Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning. Cambridge University Press (pp 559-588) 2005

Tutorial on Matlab's Statistics Toolbox. This is the core of my Advanced Statistics Course, which emphasizes familiarity with the different distributions and the use of relative likelihood methods. Zipped folder contains executable Matlab .m file and a .pdf version of same with inserted figures and captions.

Cheng, K., & Gallistel, C.R. (2005) Shape parameters explain data from spatial transformations: Comment on Pearce et al. (2004) and Tomassi & Polli (2004). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(2), pp. 254-259

Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (2004). Language and the origin of
numerical concepts
. Science, 306, 441-443.

Gallistel, C. R., Balsam, P. D., & Fairhurst, S. (2004). The learning
curve: Implications of a quantitative analysis.
Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 101(36), 13124-13131.

Matlab, Excel & Stand-Alone implementations of the Change-Point Algorithm.

Gallistel, C.R., King, A., McDonald, R. (2004) Sources of variability and systematic error in mouse timing behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30(1), pp. 3-16

Gallistel, C. R. (2002).Conception, Perception, and the Control of Action: Response to Majid. TICCS, 2002, 6, 504.

Gallistel, C. R. (2002).Frequency, contingency and the information processing theory of conditioning. In P. Sedelmeir & T. Betsch (Eds.), Frequency processing and cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 153-171.

S. Fairhurst, C. R. Gallistel, & J. Gibbon (2003) Temporal landmarks: Proximity prevails.  Animal Cognition, 6(2), pp. 113-120.

Gallistel, C. R. (2003) Conditioning from an information processing perspective. Behavioural Processes. 61(3) 1234 1-13

Gallistel, C. R. Time has Come Neuron, Vol. 38, 1-20 April 24, 2003

Gallistel, C. R. Rate Estimation Theory Model Excel Implementation and Instruction. 2003 April 15.

Gallistel, C.R. (2002) The principle of adaptive specialization as it applies to learning and memory. In R.H. Kluwe, G. Lüer, F. Röser (Eds) Principles of learning and memory Berlin: Birkhäuser. pp. 250-280

Cordes, S., Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (2002). Variability signatures distinguish verbal from nonverbal counting for both large and small numbers. Psychological Bulletin and Review, 8, 698-707.

Gallistel, C.R. (2002) Language and Spatial Frames of Referencein Mind and Brain. News & Views in TICCS, 6, 321-322

Gallistel, C. R., Gelman, R., & Cordes, S. (2005). The cultural and evolutionary history of the real numbers. In S. Levinson & P. Jaisson (Eds.), Culture and evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

King, A. S., McDonald, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (2001) Screening for mice that remember incorrectly. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 14: 232-257

Gallistel, C. R., Mark, T. A., King, A. P., & Latham, P. E. (2001). The rat approximates an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward: Implications for the law of effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 27, 354-372.

Gallistel, C. R., & Gibbon, J. (2001). Computational Versus Associative Models of Simple Conditioning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 146-150.

Brannon, E. M., Wusthoff, C. J., Gallistel, C. R., & Gibbon, J. (2001). Numerical subtraction in the pigeon: Evidence for a linear subjective number scale. Psychological Science, 12(3), 238-243.

Gallistel, C. R. (2001). Mental representations, psychology of, Encylopedia of the Behavioral and Social Sciences. New York: Elsevier.

Gallistel, C. R. (2000) The replacement of general-purpose learning
models with adaptively specialized learning modules.
In M.S. Gazzaniga, Ed. The Cognitive Neurosciences. 2d ed. (1179-1191) Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.

Gallistel, C. R., & Gibbon, J. (2000). Time, rate and conditioning. Psychological Review, 107, 289-344.

Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (2000). Non-verbal numerical cognition: From reals to integers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 59-65.

Gallistel, C. R. (1999). Can a decay process explain the timing of conditioned responses? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71(2), 264-271.

Gallistel, C. R. (1999). Coordinate transformations in the genesis of directed action. In B. O. M. Bly & D. E. Rummelhart (Eds.), Cognitive science (pp. 1-42). New York: Academic.

Gallistel, C.R. (1998) Symbolic processes in the brain:The case of insect navigation. In D. Scarorough & S Sternberg (Eds) Methods, models and conceptual issues. Vol 4 of An invitation to cognitive science. 2nd edition (D. Osherson, General Editor) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.