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Edward A. Wasserman

Edward A. Wasserman

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Psychology

D-Index
68
Citations
15019
World Ranking
2508
National Ranking
1452

Overview

Edward A. Wasserman is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, animal science and zoology, social psychology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's main topics of research include child and animal learning development, behavioral and psychological studies, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, animal nutrition and physiology, and livestock and poultry management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward A. Wasserman demonstrate an emphasis on category learning and animal cognition. Notable publications include:

  • "Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons" (2023) published in Current Biology
  • "Pigeons exhibit flexibility but not rule formation in dimensional learning, stimulus generalization, and task switching." (2020) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • "Prelimbic cortex maintains attention to category-relevant information and flexibly updates category representations" (2021) published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • "Selective and distributed attention in human and pigeon category learning" (2020) published in Cognition
  • "How do crows and parrots come to spontaneously perceive relations-between-relations?" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Frequent co-authors of Wasserman include Leyre Castro, Ellen O'Donoghue, Francisca Díaz, Matthew B. Broschard, and Vladimir M. Sloutsky.

Wasserman has contributed multiple articles to a range of journals, with recurrent publications in:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Cognition
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

In addition to journal articles, Edward A. Wasserman has published a book titled As If By Design (2021) through Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Cue Competition in Causality Judgments: The Role of Nonpresentation of Compound Stimulus Elements

    Linda J. Van Hamme;Edward A. Wasserman

  • WHAT'S ELEMENTARY ABOUT ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING?

    Edward A. Wasserman;Ralph R. Miller

  • Rating causal relations: Role of probability in judgments of response-outcome contingency.

    E. A. Wasserman;S. M. Elek;D. L. Chatlosh;A. G. Baker

  • Comparative cognition : experimental explorations of animal intelligence

    Edward A. Wasserman;Thomas R. Zentall

  • Concept learning in animals.

    Thomas R. Zentall;Edward A. Wasserman;Olga F. Lazareva;Roger K. R. Thompson

  • Pavlovian appetitive contingencies and approach versus withdrawal to conditioned stimuli in pigeons.

    Edward A. Wasserman;Stanley R. Franklin;Eliot Hearst

  • Conceptual Behavior in Pigeons: Categorization of Both Familiar and Novel Examples From Four Classes of Natural and Artificial Stimuli

    R. S. Bhatt;E. A. Wasserman;W. F. Reynolds;K. S. Knauss

  • Assessment of an information integration account of contingency judgment with examination of subjective cell importance and method of information presentation.

    Shu-Fang Kao;Edward A. Wasserman

  • Conceptual behavior in pigeons: Categories, subcategories, and pseudocategories.

    E. A. Wasserman;R. E. Kiedinger;R. S. Bhatt

  • Contributions of specific cell information to judgments of interevent contingency.

    E. A. Wasserman;W. W. Dorner;S. F. Kao

  • Detecting Response-Outcome Relations: Toward an Understanding of the Causal Texture of the Environment

    E.A. Wasserman

  • Comparative Cognition: Beginning the Second Century of the Study of Animal Intelligence

    E. A. Wasserman

  • Entropy detection by pigeons: response to mixed visual displays after same-different discrimination training.

    Michael E. Young;Edward A. Wasserman

  • Perception of causal relations in humans: Factors affecting judgments of response-outcome contingencies under free-operant procedures☆

    Edward A. Wasserman;D. L. Chatlosh;D. J. Neunaber

  • Attribution of Causality to Common and Distinctive Elements of Compound Stimuli

    Edward A. Wasserman

  • Discriminating the relation between relations: the role of entropy in abstract conceptualization by baboons (Papio papio) and humans (Homo sapiens).

    Joël Fagot;Edward A. Wasserman;Michael E. Young

  • Pavlovian conditioning with heat reinforcement produces stimulus-directed pecking in chicks.

    Edward A. Wasserman

  • Backward blocking and recovery from overshadowing in human causal judgement: the role of within-compound associations

    Edward A. Wasserman;Lyndon R. Berglan

  • Temporal factors influencing the pigeon's successive matching-to-sample performance: sample duration, intertrial interval, and retention interval.

    Keith R. Nelson;Edward A. Wasserman

  • Non-Similarity-Based Conceptualization in Pigeons via Secondary or Mediated Generalization

    E.A. Wasserman;C.L. DeVolder;D.J. Coppage

  • The Oxford handbook of comparative cognition

    Thomas R. Zentall;Edward A. Wasserman

Frequent Co-Authors

Irving Biederman
Irving Biederman University of Southern California
Thomas R. Zentall
Thomas R. Zentall University of Kentucky
Joël Fagot
Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University
Ramesh S. Bhatt
Ramesh S. Bhatt University of Kentucky
Vladimir M. Sloutsky
Vladimir M. Sloutsky The Ohio State University
Robert G. Cook
Robert G. Cook Tufts University
Philippe G. Schyns
Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow
Shaun P. Vecera
Shaun P. Vecera University of Iowa
Frédéric Gosselin
Frédéric Gosselin University of Montreal
Bob McMurray
Bob McMurray University of Iowa

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