E A Wasserman

Biographic Data

ID	1662534
NAME	E A Wasserman
GIVEN NAMES	E A
FAMILY NAME	Wasserman
SIGNATURE	WASSERMAN E A
AFFILIATIONS	University of Iowa
ORCID	0000-0002-9993-8108
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	14
TOTAL CITATIONS	4
AUTHOR COUNT	14
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

Nonnumerical stimuli exert surprisingly strong behavioral control in an unconstrained numerical discrimination learning task
Open AccessFrancisca Díaz, E A WassermanARTICLECognition2026
Humans exhibit associative symmetry in the absence of backward training and stimulus overlap
Open AccessVictor M Navarro, E A WassermanARTICLEJournal of the Experimental…2025References: 41
A recent survey of the evidence on associative symmetry in humans revealed that nearly all the demonstrations either unintentionally trained backward stimulus pairings and/or had a temporal overlap between the stimuli being trained. We consider these criticisms and improve on our own method of “associative networks.” In this method, participants learn multiple stimulus pairings via arbitrary matching‐to‐sample tasks in which the stimuli are concu…
It’s not all the same to pigeons: Representations of difference may be shared across species
Open AccessEllen M O'Donoghue, Francisca Díaz et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2022
As If by Design: How Creative Behaviors Really Evolve
E A WassermanBOOKAs If by Design2021
Not all exceptions are created equal: Learning of exceptions in pigeons’ categorization
Open AccessLeyre Castro, Seunghye Yang et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2021
When my wrongs are worse than yours: Behavioral and neural asymmetries in first-person and third-person perspectives of accidental harms
Open AccessJoshua Hirschfeld-Kroen, Feng Jiang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2021Cited by: 1References: 83
Selective and distributed attention in human and pigeon category learning
Open AccessLeyre Castro, Olivera Savic et al.ARTICLECognition2020
Comparative Cognition
Open AccessE A Wasserman, Leyre CastroOTHERHandbook of Psychology, Second…2012
Although its origins can be traced to philosophical speculations of the 16th and 17th centuries, for the past 100 years research in comparative cognition has used the methods of natural science to discover the extent to which our mental functions are similar to those of other animals. Are animals intelligentWhat do we know about animals' cognitive capacitiesWhat forms and aspects of cognition have been studiedWhat methods have been used in this r…
Animals have minds
Mark S Blumberg, E A WassermanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1996
Animals have minds
Mark S Blumberg, E A WassermanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1996
Comparative cognition: Beginning the second century of the study of animal intelligence
E A WassermanARTICLEPsychological Bulletin1993Cited by: 3
Comparative psychology has undergone many changes since its inception in Victorian England some 100 years ago. Gone are the amusing anecdotes of pet owners and amateur naturalists, replaced by the detailed observations of behavioral scientists made under carefully controlled conditions. Yet, many of the persistent problems in the comparative analysis of intelligence remain: Are the cognitive processes of animals like those of humans? Can research…
Pavlovian conditioning: Is temporal contiguity irrelevant
E A WassermanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1989
Pavlovian conditioning: Is temporal contiguity irrelevant
E A WassermanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1989
Another Failure for Motivation to Enhance Trace Retrieval
Open AccessE A Wasserman, Bernard Weiner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1968
The relationship between motivation and memory was examined when the motivation was introduced during the retention test. It was found that the paced and free recall of a paired-associates list were not enhanced by the presence of a large monetary reward for correct performance