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Anthony A. Wright is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a specific emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. The scientist's work intersects various subfields including general health professions and oceanography.

The main topics covered in Wright's publications include memory and neural mechanisms, primate behavior and ecology, tracheal and airway disorders, health literacy and information accessibility, olfactory and sensory function studies, neural dynamics and brain function, and child and animal learning development.

Wright has contributed to several recent papers, with notable examples as follows:

  • Visuo-frontal interactions during social learning in freely moving macaques, 2024, Nature
  • Issues in the comparative cognition of same/different abstract-concept learning, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Population coding of strategic variables during foraging in freely moving macaques, 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • Same/different concept learning by primates and birds, 2021, Learning & Behavior
  • Analysis of Content Related to Retrograde Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction on TikTok: Opportunities for Patient Education and Advocacy, 2025, Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Wright include Melissa Franch, Arun Parajuli, Valentin Dragoi, Sudha Yellapantula, and Natasha Kharas.

Wright's research has been published predominantly in venues such as Nature and Learning & Behavior, with additional publications in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Nature Neuroscience, and Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology.

Best Publications

  • Memory processing of serial lists by pigeons, monkeys and people

    Anthony A. Wright;Hector C. Santiago;Stephen F. Sands;Donald F. Kendrick

  • Color-naming functions for the pigeon.

    Anthony A. Wright;William W. Cumming

  • Concept learning by pigeons: Matching-to-sample with trial-unique video picture stimuli

    Anthony A. Wright;Anthony A. Wright;Robert G. Cook;Robert G. Cook;Jacquelyne J. Rivera;Stephen F. Sands

  • Music perception and octave generalization in rhesus monkeys.

    Anthony A. Wright;Jacquelyne J. Rivera;Stewart H. Hulse;Melissa Shyan

  • Serial probe recognition performance by a rhesus monkey and a human with 10- and 20-item lists.

    Stephen F. Sands;Anthony A. Wright

  • Primate memory: retention of serial list items by a rhesus monkey

    Stephen F. Sands;Anthony A. Wright

  • Psychometric and psychophysical hue discrimination functions for the pigeon

    Anthony A. Wright

  • Same/different abstract-concept learning by pigeons.

    Jeffrey S. Katz;Anthony A. Wright

  • The influence of ultraviolet radiation on the pigeon's color discrimination

    Anthony A. Wright

  • Pigeon memory: same/different concept learning, serial probe recognition acquisition, and probe delay effects on the serial-position function

    Héctor C. Santiago;Anthony A. Wright

  • Mechanisms of same/different concept learning in primates and avians

    Anthony A. Wright;Jeffrey S. Katz

  • Mechanisms of same/different abstract-concept learning by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

    Jeffrey S. Katz;Anthony A. Wright;Jocelyne Bachevalier

  • The hippocampus and memory of verbal and pictorial material.

    Andrew C. Papanicolaou;Panagiotis G. Simos;Eduardo M. Castillo;Joshua I. Breier

  • Issues in the comparative cognition of abstract-concept learning

    Jeffrey S. Katz;Anthony A. Wright;Kent D. Bodily

  • Concept Learning and Learning Strategies

    Anthony A. Wright

  • An Experimental Analysis of Memory Processing.

    Anthony A. Wright

  • Monkey memory: same/different concept learning, serial probe acquisition, and probe delay effects.

    Anthony A. Wright;Héctor C. Santiago;Stephen F. Sands

  • Visual Short-Term Memory Compared in Rhesus Monkeys and Humans

    L. Caitlin Elmore;Wei Ji Ma;John F. Magnotti;Kenneth J. Leising

  • Pictorial similarity judgments and the organization of visual memory in the rhesus monkey.

    Stephen F. Sands;Charles E. Lincoln;Anthony A. Wright

  • Abstract-concept learning and list-memory processing by capuchin and rhesus monkeys.

    Anthony A. Wright;Jacquelyne J. Rivera;Jeffrey S. Katz;Jocelyne Bachevalier

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Cook
Robert G. Cook Tufts University
Peter J. Urcuioli
Peter J. Urcuioli Purdue University West Lafayette
Bruce A. Schneider
Bruce A. Schneider University of Toronto
Panagiotis G. Simos
Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete
Stewart H. Hulse
Stewart H. Hulse Johns Hopkins University
Henry L. Roediger
Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis
John A. Nevin
John A. Nevin University of New Hampshire
William A. Roberts
William A. Roberts University of Western Ontario
Michael J. Watkins
Michael J. Watkins Rice University

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