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D-Index
90
Citations
37594
World Ranking
941
National Ranking
115

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Anthony Dickinson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within psychology, focusing on various subfields including developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

Their research interests concentrate on behavioral and psychological studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, child and animal learning development, and cognitive and psychological constructs research.

Frequent publication venues for Anthony Dickinson include the Psychological Review, the Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

  • A theory of actions and habits: The interaction of rate correlation and contiguity systems in free-operant behavior, 2020, Psychological Review
  • Dual-system free-operant avoidance: extension of a theory, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Dual-system free-operant avoidance: Extension of a theory, 2024, Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • Supplemental Material for A Theory of Actions and Habits: The Interaction of Rate Correlation and Contiguity Systems in Free-Operant Behavior, 2020, Psychological Review
  • Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers, 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition

Frequent co-authors include Omar D. Pérez, Omar J. Pérez, Joan Sansa Aguilar, Fredrik Åhs, and Antonio Artigas.

In 2003, Anthony Dickinson was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays

    Nicola S. Clayton;Anthony Dickinson

  • Goal-directed instrumental action: Contingency and incentive learning and their cortical substrates

    Bernard W Balleine;Anthony Dickinson

  • Neuronal coding of prediction errors.

    Wolfram Schultz;Anthony Dickinson

  • Contemporary animal learning theory

    Anthony Dickinson

  • Actions and habits: the development of behavioural autonomy

    A. Dickinson

  • Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory

    Pascale Waelti;Anthony Dickinson;Wolfram Schultz

  • Motivational control of goal-directed action

    Anthony Dickinson;Bernard Balleine

  • The neuropsychological basis of addictive behaviour.

    Barry J Everitt;Anthony Dickinson;Trevor W Robbins

  • Instrumental responding following reinforcer devaluation.

    Christopher D. Adams;Anthony Dickinson

  • Can animals recall the past and plan for the future

    Nicola S. Clayton;Timothy J. Bussey;Anthony Dickinson

  • Planning for the future by western scrub-jays.

    C. R. Raby;D. M. Alexis;A. Dickinson;N. S. Clayton

  • The Role of Learning in the Operation of Motivational Systems

    Anthony Dickinson;Bernard Balleine

  • Determining the Neural Substrates of Goal-Directed Learning in the Human Brain

    Vivian V Valentin;Anthony Dickinson;John P O'Doherty

  • Judgement of act-outcome contingency: The role of selective attribution

    Anthony Dickinson;David Shanks;John Evenden

  • Parallel and interactive learning processes within the basal ganglia: relevance for the understanding of addiction.

    David Belin;Sietse Jonkman;Anthony Dickinson;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Within compound Associations Mediate the Retrospective Revaluation of Causality Judgements

    Anthony Dickinson;John Burke

  • Disrupted prediction-error signal in psychosis: evidence for an associative account of delusions.

    P.R. Corlett;G.K. Murray;G.D. Honey;M.R.F. Aitken

  • Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities

    Todd S. Braver;Marie K. Krug;Kimberly S. Chiew;Wouter Kool

  • Associative Accounts of Causality Judgment

    David R. Shanks;Anthony Dickinson

  • The effect of the instrumental training contingency on susceptibility to reinforcer devaluation

    Anthony Dickinson;D. J. Nicholas;Christopher D. Adams

  • Conditioning and associative learning.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola S. Clayton
Nicola S. Clayton University of Cambridge
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Theodora Duka
Theodora Duka University of Sussex
Michael R. F. Aitken
Michael R. F. Aitken King's College London
David R. Shanks
David R. Shanks University College London
Lee Hogarth
Lee Hogarth University of Exeter
Paul C. Fletcher
Paul C. Fletcher University of Cambridge
John M. Pearce
John M. Pearce Cardiff University
Cecilia Heyes
Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford
N. J. Mackintosh
N. J. Mackintosh University of Cambridge

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