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7880
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Overview

Michael Davison is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with particular focus on developmental and educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Modeling choice across time: Effects of response-reinforcer discriminability, 2021, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Generalizing from the Past, Choosing the Future, 2020, Perspectives on Behavior Science
  • Being there on time: Reinforcer effects on timing and locating, 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Aversive control versus stimulus control by punishment, 2022, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Pigeons prefer to invest early for future reinforcers, 2021, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

The primary topics covered in their work include behavioral and psychological studies, animal behavior and welfare studies, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, animal nutrition and physiology, memory and neural mechanisms, mental health research topics, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Michael Davison frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Behavioural Processes
  • Perspectives on Behavior Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist often collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Sarah Cowie
  • Timothy A. Shahan
  • Gabrielle M. Sutton
  • Anthony N. Nist
  • Hugo Eduardo Reyes Huerta

In addition to journal publications, Michael Davison has contributed to book literature with a publication titled Aproximaciones actuales sobre conducta y sus aplicaciones in 2023, published by Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The Matching Law: A Research Review

    Michael Davison;Dianne McCarthy

  • Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon

    Cordula V. Mora;Cordula V. Mora;Michael Davison;J. Martin Wild;Michael M. Walker

  • The relation between the generalized matching law and signal-detection theory.

    M. C. Davison;R. D. Tustin

  • Choice in a variable environment: every reinforcer counts.

    Michael Davison;William M. Baum

  • STIMULI, REINFORCERS, AND BEHAVIOR: AN INTEGRATION

    Michael Davison;John A. Nevin

  • Stimulus discriminability, contingency discriminability, and schedule performance

    Michael Davison;Peter E. Jenkins

  • Preference for qualitatively different reinforcers.

    Valerie Hollard;M. C. Davison

  • Performance in concurrent interval schedules: a systematic replication.

    Brenda Lobb;M. C. Davison

  • PREFERENCE FOR MIXED-INTERVAL <i>VERSUS</i> FIXED-INTERVAL SCHEDULES<sup>1</sup>

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  • Do Conditional Reinforcers Count

    Michael Davison;William M. Baum

  • Choice: Some quantitative relations.

    Edmund Fantino;Michael Davison

  • SIGNAL PROBABILITY, REINFORCEMENT AND SIGNAL DETECTION

    Dianne McCarthy;Michael Davison

  • The matching law

    Michael Davison

  • <i>PREFERENCE FOR MIXED-INTERVAL</i> VERSUS <i>FIXED-INTERVAL SCHEDULES: NUMBER OF COMPONENT INTERVALS</i> <sup>1</sup>

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  • Choice in a variable environment: effects of blackout duration and extinction between components.

    Michael Davison;William M. Baum

  • Determination of a behavioral transfer function: White-noise analysis of session-to-session response-ratio dynamics on concurrent VI VI schedules.

    Ian Hunter;Michael Davison

  • Isobias and alloiobias functions in animal psycophysics.

    Dianne McCarthy;Michael Davison

  • Every reinforcer counts: reinforcer magnitude and local preference.

    Michael Davison;William M. Baum

  • Sensitivity to reinforcement in concurrent arithmetic and exponential schedules.

    Russell Taylor;Michael Davison

  • Choice in a variable environment: visit patterns in the dynamics of choice.

    William M. Baum;Michael Davison

  • Supplementation with a mixture of complex lipids derived from milk to growing rats results in improvements in parameters related to growth and cognition.

    Mark H. Vickers;Jian Guan;Malin Gustavsson;Christian U. Krägeloh

  • Effects of varying stimulus disparity and the reinforcer ratio in concurrent-schedule and signal-detection procedures.

    Brent Alsop;Michael Davison

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian U. Krägeloh
Christian U. Krägeloh Auckland University of Technology
John A. Nevin
John A. Nevin University of New Hampshire
Timothy A. Shahan
Timothy A. Shahan Utah State University
Ian J.H. Duncan
Ian J.H. Duncan University of Guelph
Edmund Fantino
Edmund Fantino University of California, San Diego

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