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Ecology and learning

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Published1981
Citations8
References265

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References (265)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1963 • 36,823 citations

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

1980 • 22,799 citations

The Ecology of Human Development

1979 • 18,253 citations

The Theory of Island Biogeography

2001 • 12,988 citations

The Sciences of the Artificial

1969 • 11,821 citations

The Theory of Island Biogeography

1968 • 11,511 citations

The ecology of human development : experiments by nature and design

1979 • 11,489 citations

Animal Species and Evolution

1963 • 9,988 citations

Toward an experimental ecology of human development.

1977 • 8,460 citations

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme

1979 • 7,466 citations

On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life /

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The Image of the City

1960 • 6,406 citations

The Great Transformation

1944 • 6,330 citations

Ecology, Sexual Selection, and the Evolution of Mating Systems

1977 • 6,145 citations

THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS

1963 • 5,962 citations

The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems

1969 • 5,943 citations

Concluding Remarks

1957 • 5,079 citations

On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

1859 • 4,595 citations

Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory.

1972 • 4,453 citations

On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment

1966 • 4,287 citations

On aims and methods of Ethology

1963 • 4,190 citations

Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

1970 • 4,116 citations

Adaptation and Natural Selection

2008 • 4,032 citations

Ontogeny and Phylogeny

1977 • 3,887 citations

Optimal Foraging: A Selective Review of Theory and Tests

1977 • 3,200 citations

Imre Lakatos and Musgrave Alan (eds.). Criticism and the growth of knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 282 pp. np.

1972 • 3,075 citations

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

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The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems

1967 • 3,065 citations

The Study of Instinct

1952 • 2,758 citations

ON THE LAW OF EFFECT1

1970 • 2,570 citations

Cognition and reality

1976 • 2,562 citations

Handbook of Experimental Psychology

1952 • 2,411 citations

Handbook of operant behavior

1978 • 2,259 citations

Ontogeny and Phylogeny.

1978 • 2,095 citations

Perceiving, Acting and Knowing

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Punishment and aversive behavior

1969 • 1,994 citations

Relation of cue to consequence in avoidance learning

1966 • 1,963 citations

Psychology

1962 • 1,950 citations

Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing: Toward an Ecological Psychology

1978 • 1,828 citations

Are theories of learning necessary?

1950 • 1,780 citations

On the generality of the laws of learning.

1970 • 1,732 citations

Learning and Instinct in Animals

1964 • 1,624 citations

Species-specific defense reactions and avoidance learning.

1970 • 1,591 citations

On the Evolution of Mating Systems in Birds and Mammals

1969 • 1,528 citations

AUTO‐SHAPING OF THE PIGEON'S KEY‐PECK1

1968 • 1,527 citations

Pavlovian conditioning and its proper control procedures.

1967 • 1,363 citations

Animal behavior. An evolutionary approach

1978 • 1,175 citations

The misbehavior of organisms.

1961 • 1,174 citations

Specific hungers and poison avoidance as adaptive specializations of learning.

1971 • 1,163 citations

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex.

1974 • 1,153 citations

The Conceptual Framework of Psychology

1954 • 1,073 citations

An Introduction to Population Ecology.

1980 • 1,068 citations

The "supersitition" experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior.

1971 • 1,066 citations

Evolution and Modification of Behavior

1965 • 1,065 citations

Perspectives in Ethology

1973 • 1,059 citations

The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation

1943 • 1,032 citations

A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behavior

1953 • 1,030 citations

Handbook of operant behavior

1977 • 965 citations

Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning

1972 • 952 citations

A comparative approach to vocal learning: Song development in white-crowned sparrows.

1970 • 927 citations

Neural mechanisms of learning and memory

1977 • 864 citations

The nature of intelligence

1976 • 818 citations

Adaptation

1978 • 802 citations

Population Biology and Evolution

1968 • 801 citations

The Ethology of Predation

1976 • 797 citations

Aversive Conditioning and Learning

1971 • 764 citations

Olfaction and taste

1963 • 757 citations

Learning with prolonged delay of reinforcement

1966 • 744 citations

Foraging behavior: ecological, ethological, and psychological approaches

1980 • 742 citations

Miami Symposium on the prediction of behavior, 1967 : aversive stimulation

1968 • 716 citations

Niche, Habitat, and Ecotope

1973 • 710 citations

Learning Mechanisms in Food Selection

1978 • 700 citations

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex

1976 • 699 citations

Darwin and Facial Expression

1973 • 698 citations

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 17)

1985 • 688 citations

THE CORRELATION‐BASED LAW OF EFFECT1

1973 • 667 citations

Biological boundaries of learning

1972 • 664 citations

ADAPTATION AND THE FORM-FUNCTION COMPLEX

1965 • 643 citations

An Introduction to Population Ecology

1979 • 636 citations

Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing: An Introduction

1979 • 631 citations

The Ethology of Predation

1976 • 630 citations

The evolution of behavior

1975 • 625 citations

Animal Orientation and Navigation

1972 • 610 citations

Memory Organization and Structure

1981 • 602 citations

The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play.

1967 • 594 citations

Intelligence in ape and man

1976 • 593 citations

Ecology an Evolutionary Approach

1973 • 583 citations

Constraints on learning

1973 • 572 citations

Fundamentals of Ecology

1959 • 568 citations

Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior

1982 • 559 citations

Perspectives on Memory Research

1980 • 558 citations

The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation.

1943 • 553 citations

Optimal prey selection in the great tit (Parus major)

1977 • 544 citations

The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Behavior

1966 • 544 citations

Beliefs about beliefs [P&W, SR&B]

1978 • 529 citations

The determiners of behavior at a choice point.

1938 • 528 citations

The stage question in cognitive-developmental theory

1978 • 496 citations

The Comparative Analysis of Learning

1975 • 490 citations

Ontogeny of Bird Song

1970 • 482 citations

Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

2013 • 482 citations

Neural mechanisms of learning and memory

1992 • 473 citations

The Conceptual Framework of Psychology [1952]

2001 • 468 citations

Learned Associations Over Long Delays

1970 • 464 citations

Learning mechanisms in food selection

1977 • 451 citations

Ecological factors in human development

1977 • 447 citations

The Selection of Foods by Rats, Humans, and Other Animals

1976 • 442 citations

Sociobiology as an adaptationist program

1979 • 430 citations

Food Aversion Learning

1977 • 424 citations

L'instinct dans le comportement des animaux et de l'homme

1956 • 413 citations

Philosophy and Scientific Realism.

1965 • 406 citations

Ecological Significance of Imprinting and Early Learning

1975 • 404 citations

The Concept of the Reflex in the Description of Behavior

1931 • 396 citations

Developmental neurobiology

1971 • 396 citations

RESPONSE STRENGTH IN MULTIPLE SCHEDULES1

1974 • 391 citations

Constraints on Learning

1972 • 385 citations

Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge.

1977 • 378 citations

Adaptation and evolutionary theory

1978 • 371 citations

There is more than one kind of learning.

1949 • 360 citations

Constraints on Learning: Limitations and Predispositions

1974 • 357 citations

Development of species identification in birds

1971 • 355 citations

The First Century of Experimental Psychology

1980 • 348 citations

The Concept of Integrative Levels and Biology

1945 • 339 citations

An Optimal Strategy of Evolution

1974 • 339 citations

Midwest and its children: The psychological ecology of an American town.

1954 • 329 citations

Challenges to a Science of Developmental Psychology

1977 • 324 citations

Perspectives in Memory Research

1988 • 322 citations

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT AS SHOCK‐FREQUENCY REDUCTION1

1966 • 321 citations

Philosophy and Scientific Realism.

1964 • 319 citations

Foraging and reinforcement schedules in the pigeon: Optimal and non-optimal aspects of choice

1979 • 315 citations

Illness-Induced Aversions in Rat and Quail: Relative Salience of Visual and Gustatory Cues

1971 • 315 citations

Evolution, Brain, and Behavior: Persistent Problems

2019 • 314 citations

THE ROLE OF INTERFERENCE IN ASSOCIATION OVER A DELAY

1971 • 311 citations

Mind, mechanism, and adaptive behavior.

1937 • 310 citations

Twelve issues for cognitive science

1981 • 309 citations

Search Image Formation in the Blue Jay ( Cyanocitta cristata )

1979 • 306 citations

Unmasking visual masking: A look at the "why" behind the veil of the "how."

1980 • 303 citations

The Roles of Experience in the Development of Behavior and the Nervous System

1976 • 296 citations

Taste aversion and the generality of the laws of learning.

1979 • 295 citations

The application of statistical decision theory to animal behaviour

1980 • 292 citations

Principles of Animal Psychology

1936 • 288 citations

Comparison and adaptation

1979 • 287 citations

Systematic foraging by a nectar-feeding bird, the amakihi (Loxops virens).

1978 • 282 citations

Einstein: The Life and Times

1972 • 281 citations

The Definition and Recognition of Biological Adaptation

1980 • 278 citations

Army ants;: A study in social organization

1971 • 278 citations

Teleological and Teleonomic, a New Analysis

1974 • 277 citations

Conditioned taste aversions: A bibliography

1976 • 277 citations

Einstein: The Life and Times

1972 • 275 citations

On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

2009 • 271 citations

Celestial Rotation: Its Importance in the Development of Migratory Orientation

1970 • 262 citations

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 1

1966 • 259 citations

Pavlovian Conditioning of Signal-Centered Action Patterns and Autonomic Behavior: A Biological Analysis of Function

1982 • 254 citations

CONTINGENCY SPACES AND MEASURES IN CLASSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING1

1974 • 253 citations

Neural and Behavioral Specificity

1976 • 252 citations

PREADAPTATION AND MULTIPLE EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS

1959 • 249 citations

Reflections on the fall of comparative psychology: Is there a message for us all?

1971 • 242 citations

Development and evolution of behavior : essays in memory of T.C. Schneirla

1970 • 242 citations

Optical Signals: Animal Communication and Light

1979 • 240 citations

The First Century of Experimental Psychology

2019 • 237 citations

The Behavioral Significance of Color

2018 • 236 citations

Cognitive Science: The Newest Science of the Artificial*

1980 • 236 citations

Egg Shell Removal By the Black-Headed Gull, Larus Ridibundus L.; a Behaviour Component of Camouflage

1962 • 235 citations

The Elementary Nervous System.

1919 • 232 citations

ON GOING BACK TO NATURE: A REVIEW OF SELIGMAN AND HAGER'S BIOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES OF LEARNING1

1974 • 229 citations

MIGRATION: ORIENTATION AND NAVIGATION

1975 • 229 citations

Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: Hunger, environment, and food reinforcement.

1975 • 229 citations

Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat. II

1901 • 225 citations

Informational Variables in Pavlovian Conditioning

1972 • 215 citations

The role of secondary reinforcement in delayed reward learning.

1947 • 214 citations

Army Ants: A Study in Social Organization

1972 • 212 citations

Evolution of brain and behavior in vertebrates

1977 • 210 citations

EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE REINFORCEMENT: DOES THE SOURCE MATTER?1

1972 • 209 citations

The Evolution of Bitter and the Acquisition of Toxiphobia

1975 • 200 citations

Teleological and Teleonomic, a New Analysis

1974 • 198 citations

Twelve Issues for Cognitive Science

1980 • 198 citations

Species-Specific Defense Reactions

1971 • 196 citations

Learning, Change, and Evolution: An Enquiry into the Teleonomy of Learning

1979 • 195 citations

The reply of a physiologist to psychologists.

1932 • 191 citations

Migratory Orientation in the Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea: Part I: Evidence for Use of Celestial Cues

1967 • 190 citations

The meaning of ecologically oriented inquiry in contemporary psychology.

1979 • 188 citations

A reinforcement model of imprinting: Implications for socialization in monkeys and men.

1973 • 185 citations

Development of species identification in ducklings: VI. Specific embryonic experience required to maintain species-typical perception in Peking ducklings.

1980 • 184 citations

What is an Adaptive Trait?

1956 • 180 citations

Dangers in applying results from experimental social psychology.

1975 • 175 citations

Reinforcement and the organization of behaviour

1979 • 175 citations

Optical Signals. Animal Communication and Light

1978 • 172 citations

Computational models and empirical constraints

1978 • 166 citations

Incentive Contrast in Honey Bees

1976 • 163 citations

The ontogeny of vertebrate behavior

1974 • 161 citations

Knowing, Thinking, and Believing

1976 • 154 citations

Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry

2018 • 149 citations

The place of innate individual and species differences in a natural-science theory of behavior.

1945 • 148 citations

How an Instinct is Learned

1969 • 144 citations

Visual Detection of Cryptic Prey by Blue Jays ( Cyanocitta cristata )

1977 • 143 citations

A functional interpretation of the conditioned reflex.

1929 • 143 citations

Probabilistic functionalism: A conception of research method.

1979 • 142 citations

Migratory Orientation in the Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea. Part II: Mechanism of Celestial Orientation

1967 • 140 citations

On the Biology of Learning

1970 • 137 citations

Language Analysis and the Concept "Environment"

1957 • 136 citations

Development of species identification in ducklings: IV. Change in species-specific perception caused by auditory deprivation.

1978 • 134 citations

Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

2018 • 133 citations

On Some Fundamental Concepts of Darwinian Biology

1968 • 132 citations

Potentiation instead of overshadowing in the pigeon

1979 • 131 citations

Novel taste facilitation of the association of visual cues with toxicosis in rats.

1978 • 129 citations

Probabilistic functionalism: A conception of research method.

1979 • 127 citations

VOCAL LEARNING IN BIRDS

1971 • 124 citations

The neurobiology of learning and memory

1989 • 122 citations

Effects of Early Experience on Substrate Pattern Selection in Rana aurora Tadpoles

1970 • 121 citations

Adaptation and diversity

1971 • 120 citations

Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology, Vol. 8

1980 • 118 citations

Macromolecular Specificity and Biological Memory

1963 • 118 citations

Development of species identification in ducklings: V. Perceptual differentiation in the embryo.

1979 • 116 citations

Croonian Lecture - The elementary nervous system

1952 • 113 citations

BATESIAN MIMICRY: FIELD DEMONSTRATION OF THE SURVIVAL VALUE OF PIPEVINE SWALLOWTAIL AND MONARCH COLOR PATTERNS

1979 • 111 citations

Flavor Aversion Studies

1976 • 111 citations

Runway performance of goldfish as a function of complete and incomplete reduction in amount of reward

1972 • 109 citations

Some Mechanisms of Family Integration in Ducks

1956 • 108 citations

Patterns in the behaviour of organisms

1980 • 108 citations

Evolutionary scales and anagenesis.

1977 • 104 citations

On Semantic Pitfalls of Biological Adaptation

1966 • 101 citations

Beyond the operant analysis of behavior

1978 • 100 citations

Learning as a General Process with an Emphasis on Data from Feeding Experiments

1977 • 98 citations

PREDATOR RESPONSES TO ARTIFICIAL BATESIAN MIMICS RELEASED IN A NEOTROPICAL ENVIRONMENT

1967 • 96 citations

How are our Instincts Acquired?

1922 • 95 citations

A Sketch of an Ecological Metatheory for Theories of Learning

1980 • 94 citations

Behavior of the turtle (Chrysemys picta picta) in simultaneous, successive, and behavioral contrast situations.

1974 • 93 citations

Development of the Nervous System

2005 • 91 citations

Taste potentiates color-sickness associations in pigeons and quail

1980 • 91 citations

Maternal vocalizations of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)

1978 • 91 citations

Animal learning : survey and analysis

1979 • 89 citations

Bee Dancing and Evolutionary Epistemology

1977 • 86 citations

The ontogeny of an instinct. The pecking response in chicks of the laughing gull (Larus atricilla L.) and related species

1969 • 86 citations

COMBINATIONS OF RESPONSE‐REINFORCER DEPENDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE1

1974 • 85 citations

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN THE FIELD STUDY OF BEHAVIOR

1950 • 85 citations

The adjustment of goldfish to reduction in magnitude of reward in massed trials

1974 • 84 citations

ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

1975 • 82 citations

What the Nose Learns from the Mouth

1980 • 82 citations

The movements and habits of climbing plants

1876 • 81 citations

The net result of the anti-heredity movement in psychology.

1929 • 81 citations

An Ethological Approach to Studying Intelligence

1979 • 79 citations

Evolutionary Biology

1968 • 76 citations

Macromolecular specificity and biological memory

1962 • 71 citations

Roles of naturalistic observation in comparative psychology.

1977 • 70 citations

TIME ALLOCATION AND NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT1

1973 • 68 citations

Response : Flavor Aversion Studies

1976 • 67 citations

Poison-based avoidance learning in nonhuman primates: Use of visual cues

1975 • 57 citations

The Nature and Development of Animal Intelligence

1898 • 54 citations

The nature and development of animal intelligence.

1898 • 49 citations

Constraints on Learning

1979 • 49 citations

Visual cues for illness-induced aversions in the pigeon

1980 • 45 citations

James Gibson's Ecological Revolution in Psychology

1979 • 41 citations

Ethology: Understanding the other half of intelligence

1978 • 41 citations

Patterns of feeding in the domestic chick. II. An operant situation

1979 • 38 citations

Postnatal neural ontogeny: Environment‐dependent and/or environment‐expectant?

1972 • 38 citations

Animal Learning

1979 • 36 citations

Development of feeding diversity in deer mice.

1979 • 35 citations

A Note on General Process Learning Theorists.

1973 • 35 citations

The Behavior of Organisms, as it is Linked to Genes and Populations

1981 • 35 citations

How Can So Little Brain Hold So Much Knowledge? Applicability of the Principle of Natural Selection to Mental Processes

1977 • 35 citations

The “Paradigms” of Learning

1975 • 33 citations

Molar Reductionism

1976 • 30 citations

A gradient theory of multiple-choice learning.

1953 • 29 citations

The nature of life

1978 • 29 citations

Principles of Animal Psychology.

1936 • 12 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations

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