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6117
World Ranking
7973
National Ranking
4265

Overview

Kennon A. Lattal is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on various subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Animal Science and Zoology, and Small Animals.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas including Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Plant and Fungal Interactions, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Lattal has contributed to several recent publications, reflecting ongoing involvement in behavior analysis and experimental psychology. Some notable papers include:

  • Early extinction effects following intermittent reinforcement: Little evidence of extinction bursts, 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Grounding applied animal behavior practices in the experimental analysis of behavior, 2022, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Other relevant publications by coauthors in related research fields include:

  • What is an extinction burst?: A case study in the analysis of transitional behavior, 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • An experimental analysis of the extinction-induced response burst, 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Resurgence without overall worsening of alternative reinforcement, 2020, Behavioural Processes

Lattal's frequent collaborators include Eduardo J. Fernández, Tyler Nighbor, Anthony C. Oliver, Toshikazu Kuroda, and J. E. Cook. These collaborations have contributed to multiple projects and publications in the domain of experimental behavior analysis.

The scientist's work is regularly published in several key journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Other frequent venues include Perspectives on Behavior Science, Behavioural Processes, Learning and Motivation, and Behavior Analysis in Practice.

Best Publications

  • RECENCY, REPEATABILITY, AND REINFORCER RETRENCHMENT: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF RESURGENCE

    Gregory A Lieving;Kennon A Lattal

  • Response acquisition with delayed reinforcement

    Kennon A. Lattal;Suzanne Gleeson

  • Delayed reinforcement of operant behavior

    Kennon A. Lattal

  • Handbook of research methods in human operant behavior.

    Kennon A. Lattal;Michael Perone

  • STIMULUS CONTROL OF BEHAVIORAL HISTORY

    Timothy J. Freeman;Kennon A. Lattal

  • Unsignalled delay of reinforcement in variable-interval schedules.

    O. J. Sizemore;Kennon A. Lattal

  • Behavior theory and philosophy

    Kennon A. Lattal;Philip N. Chase

  • Reinforcement contingencies as discriminative stimuli

    Kennon A. Lattal

  • On defining resurgence.

    Kennon A. Lattal;Carlos R.X. Cançado;James E. Cook;Stephanie L. Kincaid

  • Resurgence of Previously Reinforced Responding: Research and Application

    Kennon A. Lattal;Claire St. Peter Pipkin

  • CONCURRENT RESURGENCE AND BEHAVIORAL HISTORY

    Stephanie P da Silva;Megan E Maxwell;Kennon Andy Lattal

  • Dependency, temporal contiguity, and response-independent reinforcement.

    O. J. Sizemore;Kennon A. Lattal

  • Signal functions in delayed reinforcement.

    Kennon A. Lattal

  • Contingencies on response rate and resistance to change

    Kennon A Lattal

  • Combinations of response-reinforcer dependence and independence.

    Kennon A. Lattal

  • APA handbook of behavior analysis, Vol. 2: Translating principles into practice.

    Gregory J. Madden;William V. Dube;Timothy D. Hackenberg;Gregory P. Hanley

  • Operant extinction: Elimination and generation of behavior.

    Kennon A. Lattal;Claire St. Peter;Rogelio Escobar

  • ACQUISITION OF A SPATIALLY DEFINED OPERANT WITH DELAYED REINFORCEMENT

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Kennon A. Lattal

  • A behavioral analysis of dog bites to children

    Judith R. Mathews;Kennon A. Lattal

  • Scheduling positive reinforcers

    Kennon A. Lattal

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Jarmolowicz
David P. Jarmolowicz University of Kansas
Timothy A. Shahan
Timothy A. Shahan Utah State University
David P. Wacker
David P. Wacker University of Iowa
Thomas S. Critchfield
Thomas S. Critchfield Illinois State University
Gregory J. Madden
Gregory J. Madden Utah State University
Alan Poling
Alan Poling Western Michigan University
William V. Dube
William V. Dube University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Gregory P. Hanley
Gregory P. Hanley Western New England University
Nancy A. Neef
Nancy A. Neef The Ohio State University
Edmund Fantino
Edmund Fantino University of California, San Diego

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