[R=refereed journal]

Gallistel, C. R. (1964) Electrical self-stimulation and its theoretical implications. Psychological Bulletin, 61, 23-34.

Gallistel, C. R. (1966) Motivating effects in self-stimulation. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 62, 95-101.

Gallistel, C. R. (1967) Intracranial stimulation and natural reward: Differential effects of trial spacing. Psychonomic Science, 9, 167-168.

Gallistel, C. R. (1969) The incentive of brain stimulation reward. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 69, 713-721.

Gallistel, C. R. (1969) Self-stimulation: Failure of pretrial stimulation to affect rats' electrode preference. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 69, 722-729.

Gallistel, C. R., Rolls, E. T., & Green, D. (1969) Neuron function inferred from behavioral and electrophysiological estimates of refractory period. Science, 166, 1028-1030.

Gallistel, C. R. (1969) Comments on Panksepp, et al. Psychonomic Science-, 16, 25-26.

Gallistel, C. R., & Beagley, G. W. (1971) The specificity of brain stimulation reward. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 76, 199-205.

Gallistel, C. R., & Beagley, W. K. (1971) Versatile behavior monitoring technique for rodents. Physiology and Behavior, 7, 273-276.

Gallistel, C. R. (1973) Self-stimulation: The neurophysiology of reward and motivation. In J. A. Deutsch (Ed.), The physiological basis of memory. New York: Academic Press.

Reid, L. D., Hunsicker, J. P., Kent, E. W., Lindsay, J. L., & Gallistel, C. R. (1973) The incidence and magnitude of the priming effect in self-stimulating rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 82, 286-293.

Barry, F. E., Walters, M. S. & Gallistel, C. R. (1974) On the optimal pulse duration in electrical stimulation of the brain. Physiology and Behavior, 12, 149-154.

Gallistel, C. R., Stellar, J. R., & Bubis, E. (1974) Parametric analysis of brain stimulation reward in the rat. I: The transient process and the memory-containing process. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 87, 848-860.

Edmonds, D., Stellar, J. R., & Gallistel, C. R. (1974) Parametric analysis of brain stimulation reward in the rat, II: Temporal summation in the reward system. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 87, 860-870.

Edmonds, D., & Gallistel, C. R. (1974) Parametric analysis of brain stimulation reward in the rat, III: The effect of performance variables on the reward summation function. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 87, 876-884.

Gallistel, C. R. (1974) Note on temporal summation in the reward system. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 87, 885-886.

Stellar, J. R., & Gallistel, C.R. (1975) Runway performance of rats for brain-stimulation or food reward: Effects of hunger and priming. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 89, 590-599.

Gallistel, C. R. (1975) Motivation as central organizing process: The psychophysical approach to its functional and neurophysiological analysis. In J. Cole & T. Sonderegger (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Vol. 22, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press.

Matthews, G. G., & Gallistel, C. R. (1975) Bilateral interaction in single units driven by MFB self-stimulation electrodes. Physiology and Behavior, 15, 543-549.

Gallistel, C. R. (1976) Spatial and temporal summation in the neural circuit subserving brain stimulation reward. In A. Wauquier & E. T. Rolls (Eds.), Brain stimulation reward-. Amsterdam: North Holland.

Edmonds, D., & Gallistel, C. R. (1977) Reward vs. performance in self-stimulation: Electrode-specific effects of AMPT on reward in the rat. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 91, 962-974.

Gallistel, C. R., Karreman, G. A., & Reivich, M. (1977) [14.C]- 2-Deoxyglucose uptake marks systems activated by rewarding brain stimulation. Brain Research Bulletin, 2, 149-152.

Norman, M. F., & Gallistel, C. R. (1978) What can one learn from a strength-duration experiment? Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 18, 1-27.

Gallistel, C. R. (1978) Self-stimulation in the rat: Quantitative characteristics of the reward pathway. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 92, 977-998.

Gallistel, C. R. (1980) From muscles to motivation. American Scientist, 68, 398-409.

Gallistel, C. R., Shizgal, P. & Yeomans, J. (1981) A portrait of the substrate for self-stimulation. Psychological Review, 8, 228-273.

Gallistel, C.R. (1981) Subcortical stimulation for motivation and reinforcement. In M. M. Patterson & R. Kesner (Eds.), Electrical stimulation techniques.. New York: Academic Press.

Gallistel, C. R. (1981) Bell, Magendie, and the proposals to restrict the use of animals in neurobehavioral research. American Psychologist, 36, 357-360.

Gallistel, C. R., Boytim, M., Gomita, Y., & Klebanoff, L. (1982) Does pimozide block the reinforcing effect of brain stimulation? Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 17, 769-781.

Gallistel, C. R. (1981) Precis of Gallistel's "The organization of action" & Matters of Principles: Responses to the Open Peer Commentary. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 609-619 & 639-650.

Wassermann, E. M., Gomita, Y., & Gallistel, C. R. (1982) Pimozide blocks reinforcement but not priming from MFB stimulation in the rat. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 17, 783-787.

Gomita, Y., & Gallistel, C. R. (1982) Effects of reinforcement- blocking doses of pimozide on neural systems driven by rewarding stimulation of the MFB: A 14C-2-Deoxyglucose analysis. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 17, 841-845.

Gallistel, C. R., Piner, C. T., Allen, T. O., Adler, N. T., Yadin, E., & Negin, M. (1982) Computer assisted analysis of 2-DG- autoradiographs in behavioral neurobiology. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 6, 409-420.

Gallistel, C. R., Nichols, S. (1983) Resolution-limiting factors in 2-deoxyglucose autoradiography. I. Factors other than diffusion. Brain Research, 267, 323-333.

Yadin, E., Guarini, V., & Gallistel, C. R. (1983) Unilaterally activated systems in rats self-stimulating at sites in the medial forebrain bundle, medial prefrontal cortex, or locus coeruleus. Brain Research, 266, 39-50.

Gallistel, C. R. (1983) Self-stimulation. In J. A. Deutsch (Ed.), The physiological basis of memory (2d Ed.). New York: Academic Press.

Gallistel, C. R., Davis, A. J. (1983) Affinity for the Dopamine D2 receptor predicts neuroleptic potency in blocking the reinforcing effect of MFB stimulation. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 19, 867-872.

Gallistel, C. R., Karras, D. (1984) Pimozide and amphetamine have opposing effects on the reward summation function. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 20, 73-77.

Cheng, K., & Gallistel, C. R. (1984) Testing the geometric power of an animal's spatial representation. In H. Roitblat, T.G. Bever and H. Terrace (Eds.), Animal Cognition . pp. 409-423. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Sax, L. D., Gallistel, C. R. (1984) Temporal integration in self-stimulation: A paradox. Behavioral Neuroscience, 98, 467-478.

Gallistel, C. R. (1985) Motivation, intention and emotion: Goal directed behavior from a cognitive-neuroethological perspective. In M. Frese & J. Sabini (Eds.), Goal directed behavior: The concept of action in psychology. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gallistel, C. R. & Tretiak, O. (1985) Microcomputer systems for analyzing 2-deoxyglucose autoradiographs. In R. R. Mize (Ed.), The microcomputer in cell and neurobiology research. New York: Elsevier.

Campbell, K. A., Evans, G., & Gallistel, C. R. (l985) A microcomputer-based method for physiologically interpretable measurement of the rewarding efficacy of brain stimulation. Physiology and Behavior, 35, 395-403.

Gallistel, C. R., Gomita, Y., Yadin, E., & Campbell, K. A. (1985) Forebrain origins and terminations of the medial forebrain bundle metabolically activated by rewarding stimulation or by reward- blocking doses of pimozide. The Journal of Neuroscience, 5, 1246-1261.

Gallistel, C. R. (1986) The role of the dopaminergic projections in MFB self-stimulation. Behavioral Brain Research, 20, 313-321.

Yanovski, J. A., Adler, N. T., & Gallistel, C. R. (1986) Does the perception of reward magnitude of self- administered electrical brain stimulation have a circadian rhythm? Behavioral Neuroscience, 100, 888-893.

Gallistel, C. R. & Freyd, G. (1987) Quantitative determination of the effects of catecholaminergic agonists and antagonists on the rewarding efficacy of MFB stimulation. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 26, 731-742.

Warazynski, M., Stellar, J. R., & Gallistel, C. R. (1987) Reward saturation in medial forebrain bundle self-stimulation. Physiology and Behavior, 41, 585-593.

Gallistel, C. R. (1988) Determining the quantitative characteristics of a reward pathway. In M. L. Commons, R. M. Church, J. R. Stellar, & A. R. Wagner (Eds.), Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Vol. 7: Biological determinants of reinforcement. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 1-30.

Gallistel, C. R. (1988). Effect of catecholaminergic drugs on the substrate for medial forebrain bundle reward. In M. Sandler, A. Dahlström, & R. H. Belmaker (Ed.), Progress in catecholamine research Part B: Central aspects (pp. 469-472). New York: A. R. Liss.

McEachron, D. L., Gallistel, C. R., Eilbert, J. L., & Tretiak, O. J.. (1988) The analytic and functional accuracy of a video densitometry system. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 25, 63-74.

Margules, J., & Gallistel, C. R. (1988) Heading in the rat: Determination by environmental shape. Animal Learning and Behavior, 16, 404410.

Gallistel, C. R. (1989) Animal cognition: the representation of space, time and number. Annual Review of Psychology, 40, 155-189.

Eilbert, J. L., Gallistel, C. R., & McEachron, D. L. (1990) The variation in user drawn outlines on digital images: Effects on quantitative autoradiography. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 14, 331-339.

Gallistel, C. R. (1990), Guest Editor: Animal Cognition, Cognition (Special Issue), 37, Nos. 1-2. Also put out as book by MIT Press (1991)

Gallistel, C. R. (1990) Representations in animal cognition: An introduction. Cognition, 37, 1-22.

Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (1990). The what and how of counting. Cognition, 34(2), 197-200.

Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (1991) Subitizing: The preverbal counting process. In W. Kessen, A. Ortony & F. Craik (Eds.) Memories, thoughts and emotions: Essays in honor of George Mandler. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 65-81

Gallistel, C. R., Brown, A., Carey, S., Gelman, R., and Keil, F. (1991) Lessons from animal learning. In R. Gelman & S. Carey (Eds.) The epigenesis of mind. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pp. 3-37

Sax, L. and Gallistel, C. R. (1991) Characteristics of spatiotemporal integration in the priming and rewarding effects of MFB stimulation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105, 884-900.

Gallistel, C. R., Leon, M., Waraczynski, M., & Hanau, M. (1991). The effect of current on the maximum possible reward. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105, 901-912.

Gallistel, C. R., & Leon, M. (1991). Measuring the subjective magnitude of brain stimulation reward by titration with rate of reward. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105, 913-924.

Gallistel, C. R. (1992). Classical conditioning as a non-stationary, multivariate time series analysis: A spreadsheet model. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 24, 340-351

Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (1992) Preverbal and verbal counting and computation. Cognition, 44, 43-74

Gallistel, C. R. (1992). Classical conditioning as an adaptive specialization: A computational model. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation Vol. 28. New York: Academic Press.

Leon, M., & Gallistel, C. R. (1992). The function relating the subjective magnitude of brain stimulation reward to stimulation strength varies with site of stimulation. Behavioural Brain Research, 52, 183-193

Gallistel, C. R. (1993) A conceptual framework for the study of numerical estimation and arithmetic reasoning in animals. In S. T. Boysen & E. J. Capaldi (Eds.) The development of numerical abilities: Animal and human models. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 211-224.

Mark, T. A., & Gallistel, C. R. (1993) Subjective reward magnitude in self-stimulation as a function of stimulating train duration and strength Behavioral Neuroscience, 107, 389-401

Mark, T. A., & Gallistel, C. R. (1994). The kinetics of matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 20, 79-95

Simmons, J., & Gallistel, C. R. (1994). The saturation of subjective reward magnitude as a function of current and pulse frequency. Behavioral Neuroscience, 108, 151-160

Gallistel, C.R. (1994) Foraging for Brain Stimulation: Toward a Neurobiology of Computation. Cognition, 50, 151-170

Gallistel, C.R. (1995) The Replacement of General Purpose Theories with Adaptive Specializations. In M.S. Gazzaniga, Ed. The Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press. pp. 1255-1267.

Gallistel, C.R. (1994) Space and Time. In N.J. Mackintosh (Ed.) Animal learning and cognition. Handbook of perception and cognition. (pp. 221-253) New York: Academic

Gallistel, C. R. (1994) Elementary and complex units of behavior. In G. d'Ydewalle, P. Eelen, & P. Bertelson (Eds.) International perspectives on psychological science. Vol 2. The state of the art. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA, pp. 157-175

Gallistel, C. R. (1995) Is LTP a Plausible Basis for Memory. In J.L. McGaugh, N. M. Weinberger & G. Lynch (Eds.) Brain and memory : modulation and mediation of neuroplasticity. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 328-337

Gallistel, C. R. (1996) The perception of time. In K. A. Akins (Ed.) Perception.. [vol 5 of Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science] New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 317-339.

King, A.P., & Gallistel, C.R. (1996) Multiphasic neuronal transfer function for representing temporal structure. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers,R28, 217-223.

Gallistel, C.R., Leon, M., Lim, B.T., Sim, J.C., Waraczynski, M. (1996) Destruction of the MFB caudal to the site of stimulation reduces rewarding efficacy but destruction rostrally does not. Behavioral Neuroscience,R 110766-790.

Gallistel, C. R., & Cramer, A. E. (1996). Computations on metric maps in mammals: Getting Oriented and choosing a multi-destination route. Journal of Experimental Biology,R199, 211-217.

Cramer, A.E., & Gallistel, C.R. (1997) Vervet monkey as traveling salesman. Nature,R 387(6632), 464-464

Gibbon, J., Malapani, C., Dale, C. L., Gallistel, C.R. (1997) Toward a Neurobiology of Temporal Cognition: Advances and Challenges. Current Opinion in NeurobiologyR.7(2),170-184

Gallistel, C.R. (1998) Symbolic processes in the brain: The case of insect navigation. In D. Scarborough & S. Sternberg (vol. eds.) Methods, models, and conceptual issues. Vol. 4 of Invitation to cognitive science. (D. Osherson, series ed.). Cambridge, MA MIT Press. pp. 1-51.

Simmons, J. A., Ackerman, R. F., & Gallistel, C. R. (1998). MFB lesions fail to structurally and functionally disconnect the VTA from many ipsilateral forebrain nuclei: Implications for the neural substrate for brain stimulation reward. Journal of Neuroscience, R 18(20), 8515-8533

Leon, M. I., & Gallistel, C. R. (1998). Self-stimulating rats combine subjective reward magnitude and subjective reward rate multiplicatively. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes,R 24, 265-277

Gallistel, C. R. (1998). The modular structure of learning. In M. S. Gazzaniga & J.S. Altman (Eds.), Brain and mind: Evolutionary perspectives, (Vol. 5, pp. 56-71). Strasbourg: Human Frontiers Science Program.

Whalen, J., Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (1999). Non-verbal counting in humans: The psychophysics of number representation. Psychological Science.R, 10, 130-137

Gallistel, C. R. (1999) 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. (1999). Coordinate transformations in the genesis of directed action. In B. M. Bly & D.E. Rumelhart (Eds.), Cognitive science.(pp. 1-43) New York: Academic

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

Gallistel, C.R., & Gelman, R. (2000) Non-Verbal Numerical Cognition: From the Reals to Integers. Trends in the cognitive sciencesR 4, 59-65

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 ScienceR 12, 238-243.

Gallistel, C. R., & Gibbon, J. (2001) Computational versus associative models of simple conditioning. Current Directions in Psychological Science 10, 146-150.

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., Mark, T.A., King, A., Latham, P. (2002) A Test of Gibbon's Feed-Forward Model of Matching. Learning and MotivationR, 43, 46-62.

Gallistel, C.R., Gelman, R. & Cordes, S. (2002, in press) The Cultural and Evolutionary History of the Real Numbers. In S. Levinson, & P. Jaisson (Eds.) Culture and evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Cordes, S., Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (2001). Variability signatures distinguish verbal from nonverbal counting for both large and small numbers. Psychological Bulletin and Review, 8, 698-707

Gallistel, C.R. (2002) Frequency, Contingency and the Information Processing Theory of Conditioning. In Sedlmeier, P. & Betsch, T. (Eds.). Frequency processing and cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 153-171

King, A.P., McDonald, R.V., Gallistel, C.R. (2001) Screening for mice that remember incorrectly. International journal of comparative psychology, R 14, 232-257.

Gallistel, C. R. (2002, in press). The Principle of Adaptive Specialization as It Applies to Learning and Memory. In R. H. Kluwe & G. Lüer & F. Rösler (Eds.), Principles of Human Learning and Memory. Basel: Birkenaeuser.

Gallistel, C. R. (2003). Conditioning from an information processing perspective. Behavioural Processes R 62, 89-101.

Fairhurst, S., C. R. Gallistel, et al. (2003). "Temporal landmarks: proximity prevails." Animal Cognition 6(2): 113-120.

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

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.

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

Miscellaneous [back to top]

Gallistel, C. R. (1968) Review of Arthur Koestler's The ghost in the machine. Psychology Today, 2(5), 14-15.

Gallistel, C. R. (1978) The irrelevance of past pleasure. Comment on Bindra's "How adaptive behavior is produced: a perceptual- motivational alternative to response reinforcement." The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 59-60.

Gallistel, C. R. (1981) A dualist manifesto. Review of J. C. Eccles' The human psyche. In Contemporary Psychology, 26, 437-438.

Gallistel, C. R. (1983) The importance of behavior in behavioral physiology. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 751-752.

Gallistel, C. R. & Cheng, K (1985) A modular sense of place? Comment on Fodor's "The modularity of mind". The Behavioral and Brain Sciences-, 8, 11-l2.

McEachron, D. L., Gallistel, C. R., & Hand, P.J. (1987) Technical Comment: Testing the primary assumption of sequential double labeling with 2-deoxyglucose. Science, 238, 1587.

Gallistel, C. R. (1988) Counting versus subitizing versus the sense of number. (Commentary on Davis & Pérusse's Animal counting). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 585-586.

Gallistel, C.R. (1993) Homeostatic conditioning: Review of Learning and Physiological Regulation by B.R. Dworkin. Science, 262, 445.

Gallistel, C.R. (1994) Interview with Randy Gallistel. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 174-179. Reprinted under title "Neurons and Behavior" in M.S. Gazzaniga (Ed.) Conversations in the cognitive neurosciences.. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press., 1997. pp. 71-89

Gallistel, C.R. (1998) Behaviourism, methodological and theoretical. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge

Gallistel, C. R. (1998) Learning. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge

Gallistel, C. R. (1998) Review of Gazzaniga's The mind's past in the July-August issue of The American Scientist, 84(4),

Gallistel, C.R. (1999) [Review of] Reinforcement learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 126-130. (book review)

Gallistel, C. R. (1999) Animal navigation. In R.A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.) The MIT Encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. (24-26) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (encyclopedia entry)

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

Gallistel, C.R. (1999) Review of The Nature of Cognition (R. Sternberg, Ed.) Science, 285: 842-843

Gallistel, C.R.,, Brannon, E.M., Gibbon, J., Wusthoff, C.J. (2001) Response to Dehaene. Psychological Science, 12, 247.

Gallistel, C.R. (2001) Mental Representations, Psychology of. In Encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. New York: Elsevier

Gallistel, C.R. (2001) Hierarchical Organization of Behavior. In Encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. New York: Elsevier

Gallistel, C.R. (2002) Language and spatial frames of reference in mind and brain. Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 321-322.

Gallistel, C.R. (2002) Conception, perception and the control of action: Reply to Majid. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,6, 504.

Gallistel, C.R. (2004) More direction needed. Review of Representing Direction in Language and Space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(3), 97.

Other Papers from My Laboratory [back to top]

Yeomans, J. S. (1979) The absolute refractory periods of self- stimulating neurons. Physiology and Behavior, 22, 911-919.

Yeomans, J. S., Matthews, G. G., Hawkins, R. D., Bellman, K., & Doppelt, H. (1979) Characterization of self-stimulation neurons by their local potential summation properties. Physiology and Behavior, 22, 921-929.

Matthews, G. (1978) Strength-duration properties of single units driven by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus in rats. Brain Research Bulletin, 3, 171-174.

Stellar, J. R., & Heard, K. (1976) Aftereffects of rewarding lateral hypothalamic brain stimulation and feeding behavior. Physiology and Behavior, 17, 865-867.

Waraczynski, M. A., & Kaplan, J. M. (1990). Frequency-response characteristics provide a functional separation between stimulation-bound feeding and self-stimulation. Physiology and Behavior, 47, 843-851.

Campbell, K. A. (1990). Plasticity in the propagation of hippocampal stimulation-induced activity: A :14C:2-deoxyglucose mapping study. Brain Research, 520, 199-207.

Cheng, K. (1986). A purely geometric module in the rat's spatial representation. Cognition, 23, 149-178.

Invited Talks (last 5 years) [back to top]

Invited Symposium Participant in symposium on The Neural Stopwatch at Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowmass, CO 1/24/99 "Time scale invariance in conditioning: Neurobiological implications

Invited presidential Address to the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, March 24, 2000 "The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior"

Plenary address to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cognitive Science, Philadelphia, August 13. 2000 "The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior"

Invited address to the annual meeting of the Pavlov Society, Annapolis, Oct. 1, 2000. "The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior"

Invited Talk to Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Persistent Neural Activity Oct. 3, 2000. "The nature of memory: behavioral constraints."

Colloquium Dept of Psychology, Brandeis University, Nov. 2, 2000 "Repealing the law of effect: The rat as an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward."

Invited conference talk, Feb. 1, 2001 "Screening for memory content rather than memory strength." Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior. Winter Park, CO.

Invited conference talk: Feb. 2, 2001: "why learning is modular." Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior. Winter Park, CO.

Invited conference talk, March 8, 2001: "The modularity of learning." Conference on Human Memory " Bremen, Germany

Three invited lectures on Motor Coordination to the Neuroscience Proseminar at NYU, April 3 4 & 11, 2001

Invited participant in roundtable discussion of the relation between thought and language at the Conference in Honor of Jacques Mehler, Paris, May 5, 2001

Invited lecturer on the modularity of learning at the Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth, July 4 [sic!], 2001

Colloquium Yale University Psychology Dept 12/5/02 The modularity of learning: Why learning mechanisms are adaptively specialized.

Colloquium University of CT Psychology Dept 12/7/02 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Colloquium University of Maryland Cognitive Neuroscience 3/8/02 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Invited talk in Symposium on Timing in Memory of John Gibbon at Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association 3/9/02 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Colloquium Harvard University Psychology Dept 3/21/02 The nonverbal system of numerical reasoning

Invited talk to Workshop of the Innateness Project, Sheffield England 04/06/02 Adaptive specialization in learning and memory

Invited talk to the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Study of Behavior Toronto 5/24/02 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Invited address to Conference on Cross-Disciplinary Aspects of Learning, Lund, Sweden 5/28/02 Adaptive specialization in learning and memory

Invited talk to the Cognitive Science Program at McQuarie University, Sydney, Austalia. 7/24/02 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Invited talk to the Cognitive Science Program at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 7/30/02. Nonverbal numerical cognition

Invited to talk to the Penn Judgment and Decisions Group 9/30/02. Choice and Matching

Invited Colloquium for the Brown University Psychology Department. 10/30/02. Temporal memory in the mouse.

Invited Brown Bag talk to the Princeton Cognitive Psychology Seminar 2/26/03 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Keynote speaker at the Neural Information and Coding Conference, Snowbird Utah, 3/1/03. The nature of memory.

Presidential invited address to the EPA. Baltimore, MD What is learning? 3/15/03

Grass Lecturer, University of Georgia. An information processing perspective on conditioning. 5/19/03

Invited talk 7th ICCNS. Boston. an information processing perspective on conditioning. 5/28/03

Invited talk to the Stockholm-Rutgers Conference on Cognitive Science. Stockholm 06/16/03. An information processing perspective on conditioning.

Invited talk at the Workshop on Neuroeconomics, Martha's Vineyard, 9/20/03. Is economic behavioral policy governed by consequences?

Colloquium Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science 11/18/03 The Learning Curve

Blackwell Lecture, University of Maryland, 11/19/03 The Nature of Learning and the Funcitonal Architecture of the Brain

Blackwell Lecture, University of Maryland, 11/20/03 The Computational Foundations of Modularity in Learning

Blackwell Lecture, University of Maryland College Park, 11/21/03 Information and Learning

Invited talk at the Innateness Workshop 3/6/04 U Maryland, College Park The computational foundations of innate learning modules

Colloquium for Cognitive Science Program at Villanova 3/18/04 An information processing perspective on conditioning

Keynote address to the British Associative Learning Association, Gregnyog, Wales 4/7/04 The role of Shannon information in conditioning.

Invited talk at symposium on Decision Making in Mind and Brain, UC Davis 4/22/04 Decision making in simple conditioning.

APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer at the Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting in Chicago 4/30/04, An information processing perspective on conditioning.

Joint talk w Stathis Papachristos at the annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Boston, 4/29/04 The acquisition of autoshaped hopper entry in the mouse.

Keynote address at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, 8/11/04. Learning and memory.

Invited symposium presentation at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, 8/11/04. Time is of the essence.

Invited speaker Mind, Brain and Behavior Lectures, Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, 9/10/04 An information processing perspective on conditioning.

Invited speaker Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics,UCSB: Understanding the Brain Program, "An information processing perspective on conditioning." 9/21/04