Thomas R Zentall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas R Zentall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Zentall |
| SIGNATURE | ZENTALL T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0359-9082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peter Urcuioli's lasting contribution
My collaboration with Peter Urcuioli started with research on delayed matching to sample. Initially we asked, what do pigeons remember during the delay in delayed matching to sample: a retrospective coding of the sample or a prospective coding of the comparison‐related response? This led us to examine the basis of the differential outcomes effect. Why are samples associated with differential outcomes learned faster and remembered better than samp…
“What you see may not be what you get”
APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition
Transitive Inference in Nonhuman Animals
"In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and etho…
Comparative CognitionExperimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence
In 1978, Hulse, Fowler, and Honig published Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior, an edited volume that was a landmark in the scientific study of animal intelligence. It liberated interest in complex learning and cognition from the grasp of the rigid theoretical structures of behaviorism that had prevailed during the previous four decades, and as a result, the field of comparative cognition was born. At long last, the study of the cognitive cap…
Comparative cognition
A Cognitive Behaviorist Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior
Traditional psychological approaches to animal learning and behavior have involved either the atheoretical behaviorist approach proposed by B. F. Skinner (1938), in which input-output relations are described in response to environmental manipulations, or the theoretical behaviorist approach offered by C. L Hull (1943), in which associations mediated by several hypothetical constructs and intervening variables are formed between stimuli and respon…
Selective Attention in Animal Discrimination Learning
The traditional approach to the study of selective attention in animal discrimination learning has been to ask if animals are capable of the central selective processing of stimuli, such that certain aspects of the discriminative stimuli are partially or wholly ignored while their relationships to each other, or other relevant stimuli, are processed. A notable characteristic of this research has been that procedures involve the acquisition of dis…
Directed forgetting in animals
Directed-forgetting research with animals suggests that animals show disrupted test performance only under certain conditions. Important variables are (a) whether during training, the cue to forget (F cue) signals nonreward (i.e., that the trial is over) versus reward (i.e., that reinforcement can be obtained) and (b) given that reinforcement can be obtained on F-cue trials, whether the post-F-cue response pattern is compatible with the baseline …
Directed forgetting in animals
Optimal stimulation
Selective Attention in Animal Discrimination Learning
The traditional approach to the study of selective attention in animal discrimination learning has been to ask if animals are capable of the central selective processing of stimuli, such that certain aspects of the discriminative stimuli are partially or wholly ignored while their relationships to each other, or other relevant stimuli, are processed. A notable characteristic of this research has been that procedures involve the acquisition of dis…
Optimal stimulation
Optimal stimulation
Directed forgetting in animals
Directed-forgetting research with animals suggests that animals show disrupted test performance only under certain conditions. Important variables are (a) whether during training, the cue to forget (F cue) signals nonreward (i.e., that the trial is over) versus reward (i.e., that reinforcement can be obtained) and (b) given that reinforcement can be obtained on F-cue trials, whether the post-F-cue response pattern is compatible with the baseline …
Directed forgetting in animals
Selective Attention in Animal Discrimination Learning
The traditional approach to the study of selective attention in animal discrimination learning has been to ask if animals are capable of the central selective processing of stimuli, such that certain aspects of the discriminative stimuli are partially or wholly ignored while their relationships to each other, or other relevant stimuli, are processed. A notable characteristic of this research has been that procedures involve the acquisition of dis…
A Cognitive Behaviorist Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior
Traditional psychological approaches to animal learning and behavior have involved either the atheoretical behaviorist approach proposed by B. F. Skinner (1938), in which input-output relations are described in response to environmental manipulations, or the theoretical behaviorist approach offered by C. L Hull (1943), in which associations mediated by several hypothetical constructs and intervening variables are formed between stimuli and respon…
Comparative CognitionExperimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence
In 1978, Hulse, Fowler, and Honig published Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior, an edited volume that was a landmark in the scientific study of animal intelligence. It liberated interest in complex learning and cognition from the grasp of the rigid theoretical structures of behaviorism that had prevailed during the previous four decades, and as a result, the field of comparative cognition was born. At long last, the study of the cognitive cap…
Comparative cognition
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition
Transitive Inference in Nonhuman Animals
"In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and etho…
APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology
“What you see may not be what you get”
Peter Urcuioli's lasting contribution
My collaboration with Peter Urcuioli started with research on delayed matching to sample. Initially we asked, what do pigeons remember during the delay in delayed matching to sample: a retrospective coding of the sample or a prospective coding of the comparison‐related response? This led us to examine the basis of the differential outcomes effect. Why are samples associated with differential outcomes learned faster and remembered better than samp…
Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Behavioral and Psychological Studies (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)