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Marcia L. Spetch

Marcia L. Spetch

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
7354
World Ranking
5516
National Ranking
375

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Marcia L. Spetch is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has conducted significant research in Neuroscience and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work covers several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The researcher's investigations encompass a range of topics such as Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, and Child and Animal Learning Development.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Varieties of visual navigation in insects, 2022, Animal Cognition
  • Effects of winning cues and relative payout on choice between simulated slot machines, 2020, Addiction
  • Encoding Context Determines Risky Choice, 2021, Psychological Science
  • Biased confabulation in risky choice, 2022, Cognition
  • Aversive view memories and risk perception in navigating ants, 2022, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors of Marcia L. Spetch include Cody A. Freas, Christopher R. Madan, Elliot A. Ludvig, Alice Mason, and Roger Dunn, reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Research publications frequently appear in journals such as Animal Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Learning & Behavior, Cognition, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among their academic honors, Marcia L. Spetch was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017 under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Pigeons' (Columba livia) encoding of geometric and featural properties of a spatial environment.

    Debbie M. Kelly;Marcia L. Spetch;C. Donald Heth

  • Interactive storytelling: a player modelling approach

    David Thue;Vadim Bulitko;Marcia Spetch;Eric Wasylishen

  • Subjective shortening: A model of pigeons' memory for event duration.

    Marcia L. Spetch;Donald M. Wilkie

  • Backward conditioning: a reevaluation of the empirical evidence.

    Marcia L. Spetch;Donald M. Wilkie;John P. Pinel

  • Overshadowing in landmark learning: touch-screen studies with pigeons and humans.

    Marcia L. Spetch

  • Use of Landmark Configuration in Pigeons and Humans: II. Generality Across Search Tasks

    Marcia L. Spetch;Ken Cheng;Suzanne E. MacDonald;Brie A. Linkenhoker

  • Of black swans and tossed coins: is the description-experience gap in risky choice limited to rare events?

    Elliot Andrew Ludvig;Marcia Louise Spetch

  • Learning the configuration of a landmark array: I. Touch-screen studies with pigeons and humans.

    Marcia L. Spetch;Ken Cheng;Suzanne E. MacDonald

  • Suboptimal choice in a percentage-reinforcement procedure: effects of signal condition and terminal-link length.

    M L Spetch;T W Belke;T W Belke;R C Barnet;R C Barnet;R Dunn;R Dunn

  • Growing in Circles Rearing Environment Alters Spatial Navigation in Fish

    Alisha A. Brown;Marcia L. Spetch;Peter L. Hurd

  • Spatial encoding in mountain chickadees: features overshadow geometry.

    Emily R Gray;Laurie L Bloomfield;Anne Ferrey;Marcia L Spetch

  • Remembering the best and worst of times: memories for extreme outcomes bias risky decisions.

    Christopher R. Madan;Elliot Andrew Ludvig;Marcia Louise Spetch

  • Extreme outcomes sway risky decisions from experience

    Elliot Andrew Ludvig;Christopher R. Madan;Christopher R. Madan;Marcia Louise Spetch

  • When good news leads to bad choices

    Margaret A. McDevitt;Roger M. Dunn;Marcia L. Spetch;Elliot Andrew Ludvig

  • Variety in the flavor of food enhances eating in the rat: a controlled demonstration.

    Dallas Treit;Marcia L. Spetch;J.A. Deutsch

  • Spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia) in an open-field feeding environment.

    Marcia L. Spetch;Charles A. Edwards

  • Choice with uncertain outcomes : conditioned reinforcement effects

    Roger Dunn;Marcia L. Spetch;Marcia L. Spetch

  • Spatial peak shift and generalization in pigeons.

    Ken Cheng;Marcia L. Spetch;Michael Johnston

  • A dissociation of motion and spatial-pattern vision in the avian telencephalon: implications for the evolution of "visual streams".

    Angela P. Nguyen;Marcia L. Spetch;Nathan A. Crowder;Ian R. Winship

  • Systematic errors in pigeons' memory for event duration: interaction between training and test delay

    Marcia L. Spetch

  • Pigeons’ memory for event duration: Intertrial interval and delay effects

    Marcia L. Spetch;Benjamin Rusak

  • Strategies in landmark use by children, adults, and marmoset monkeys

    Suzanne E. MacDonald;Marcia L. Spetch;Debbie M. Kelly;Ken Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher R. Madan
Christopher R. Madan University of Nottingham
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
William A. Roberts
William A. Roberts University of Western Ontario
Fuat Balcı
Fuat Balcı University of Manitoba

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