2026 Peter D. Balsam: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	44	6979	6508	3778	3436	137	7831

Research.com Recognitions

2000 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter D. Balsam is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and molecular biology. They have also contributed to clinical psychology and social psychology.

The scientist's work explores several key topics related to neural function and behavior. Prominent subjects in their research include neurotrasmitter receptor influence on behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Peter D. Balsam has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, Neuropsychopharmacology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Some of their recent papers include:

"How changes in dopamine D2 receptor levels alter striatal circuit function and motivation" (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
"Dopamine D2 receptors modulate the cholinergic pause and inhibitory learning" (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
"Dopamine encodes real-time reward availability and transitions between reward availability states on different timescales" (2022, Nature Communications)
"Enduring effects of early-life adversity on reward processes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies" (2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
"Cortical Processing of Multimodal Sensory Learning in Human Neonates" (2020, Cerebral Cortex)

Their frequent collaborators include Eleanor H. Simpson, Christoph Kellendonk, Eduardo F. Gallo, Kelly Martyniuk, and C. R. Gallistel.

Peter D. Balsam has received recognition by being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2000 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989.

Best Publications

The learning curve: Implications of a quantitative analysis

Charles R. Gallistel;Stephen Fairhurst;Peter Balsam

732
Citations
Inhibition of mediodorsal thalamus disrupts thalamofrontal connectivity and cognition.

Sebastien Parnaudeau;Pia Kelsey O'Neill;Scott S. Bolkan;Ryan D. Ward

420
Citations
Context and Learning

Peter D. Balsam;Arthur Tomie

392
Citations
Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning

Peter D Balsam;C. Randy Gallistel

315
Citations
Mice with Chronically Elevated Dopamine Exhibit Enhanced Motivation, but not Learning, for a Food Reward

Barbara Cagniard;Peter D Balsam;Daniela Brunner;Xiaoxi Zhuang

312
Citations
Transient overexpression of striatal D2 receptors impairs operant motivation and interval timing.

Michael R. Drew;Eleanor H. Simpson;Christoph Kellendonk;William G. Herzberg;William G. Herzberg

252
Citations
Increasing dopamine D2 receptor expression in the adult nucleus accumbens enhances motivation.

Pierre Trifilieff;Bo Feng;Eneko Urizar;Vanessa Winiger

224
Citations
Time and Associative Learning

Peter D. Balsam;Michael R. Drew;C. R. Gallistel

198
Citations
A Perceptual Inference Mechanism for Hallucinations Linked to Striatal Dopamine

Clifford M. Cassidy;Peter D. Balsam;Jodi J. Weinstein;Rachel J. Rosengard

190
Citations
The negative side effects of reward.

Peter D. Balsam;Andrew S. Bondy

184
Citations
Effects of dopamine antagonists on the timing of two intervals.

Michael R. Drew;Stephen Fairhurst;Chara Malapani;Jon C. Horvitz

165
Citations
Mediodorsal Thalamus Hypofunction Impairs Flexible Goal-Directed Behavior

Sébastien Parnaudeau;Kathleen Taylor;Scott S. Bolkan;Ryan D. Ward

164
Citations
Temporal control of conditioned responding in goldfish.

Michael R. Drew;Bojana Zupan;Anna Cooke;P. A. Couvillon

155
Citations
Extended habit training reduces dopamine mediation of appetitive response expression.

Won Yung Choi;Peter D Balsam;Jon C Horvitz

150
Citations
Newborn infants learn during sleep

William P. Fifer;Dana L. Byrd;Michelle Kaku;Inge-Marie Eigsti

135
Citations
Time to rethink the neural mechanisms of learning and memory

Charles R. Gallistel;Peter D Balsam

133
Citations
Neural substrates underlying effort, time, and risk-based decision making in motivated behavior.

Matthew R. Bailey;Eleanor H. Simpson;Peter D. Balsam

128
Citations
Relative Time in Trace Conditioning

Peter Balsam

128
Citations
Decreasing Striatopallidal Pathway Function Enhances Motivation by Energizing the Initiation of Goal-Directed Action

Fernanda Carvalho Poyraz;Eva Holzner;Matthew R. Bailey;Jozsef Meszaros

125
Citations
Rapid contextual conditioning in autoshaping.

Peter D. Balsam;Amy L. Schwartz

119
Citations
Dissociation of Hedonic Reaction to Reward and Incentive Motivation in an Animal Model of the Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Ryan D Ward;Eleanor H Simpson;Eleanor H Simpson;Vanessa L Richards;Gita Deo

116
Citations
Timing at the Start of Associative Learning

Peter D. Balsam;Michael R. Drew;Cynthia Yang

115
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Gallistel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Herbert S. Terrace Columbia University

Melanie M. Wall Columbia University

Russell M. Church Brown University

F. Gregory Ashby University of California, Santa Barbara

Janet Metcalfe Columbia University

Mauricio R. Papini Texas Christian University

M. E. Bitterman University of Hawaii at Manoa

Inge-Marie Eigsti University of Connecticut

External Links

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