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Robert Colin Honey

Robert Colin Honey

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Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
6112
World Ranking
7975
National Ranking
786

Overview

Robert Colin Honey is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, radiological and ultrasound technology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The principal areas of study in their research include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Recent significant publications by Robert Colin Honey reflect their interest in learning processes, decision-making, and conditioning models. Notable papers include:

  • "HeiDI: A model for Pavlovian learning and performance with reciprocal associations." (2020) published in Psychological Review
  • "Decision Making Within and Outside Standard Operating Procedures: Paradoxical Use of Operational Discretion in Firefighters" (2021) published in Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • "Individual differences in the nature of conditioned behavior across a conditioned stimulus: Adaptation and application of a model." (2020) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • "Variation in exploration and exploitation in group decision-making: Evidence from immersive simulations of major incident emergencies" (2021) published in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
  • "Higher-order conditioning: A critical review and computational model." (2022) published in Psychological Review

Robert Colin Honey frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, Psychological Review, Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

Their collaborative network includes several coauthors with whom they have multiple joint publications. These frequent collaborators are:

  • Dominic M. Dwyer
  • Adela F. Iliescu
  • Sabrina R. Cohen-Hatton
  • Philip C. Butler
  • Víctor M. Navarro

Robert Colin Honey's research integrates experimental and computational approaches to better understand learning mechanisms and decision-making processes. Their work contributes to the broader understanding of neural mechanisms underlying cognition and behavior, as well as practical applications such as occupational health and safety.

Best Publications

  • Selective hippocampal lesions abolish the contextual specificity of latent inhibition and conditioning.

    Robert Colin Honey;Mark Andrew Good

  • Conditioning and contextual retrieval in hippocampal rats.

    Mark Andrew Good;Robert Colin Honey

  • Contextual effects in conditioning, latent inhibition, and habituation: Associative and retrieval functions of contextual cues

    Geoffrey Hall;Robert Colin Honey

  • Dissociable Effects of Selective Lesions to Hippocampal Subsystems on Exploratory Behavior, Contextual Learning, and Spatial Learning

    Mark Andrew Good;Robert Colin Honey

  • Acquired Equivalence and Distinctiveness of Cues

    Robert Colin Honey;Geoffrey Hall

  • Hippocampal Lesions Disrupt an Associative Mismatch Process

    Robert Colin Honey;Andrew A. Watt;Mark Andrew Good

  • Imprinting, learning and development: from behaviour to brain and back

    Johan J. Bolhuis;Robert C. Honey

  • Context- but not familiarity-dependent forms of object recognition are impaired following excitotoxic hippocampal lesions in rats.

    Mark Andrew Good;Philip Andrew Barnes;Victoria Ann Staal;Anthony McGregor

  • Context-specific conditioning in the conditioned-emotional-response procedure.

    Geoffrey Hall;Robert Colin Honey

  • Context specificity of conditioning in flavor-aversion learning: Extinction and blocking tests

    Charlotte Bonardi;Robert Colin Honey;Geoffrey Hall

  • Simultaneous presentation of similar stimuli produces perceptual learning in human picture processing.

    Matthew Edward Mundy;Robert Colin Honey;Dominic M. Dwyer

  • The role of stimulus comparison in perceptual learning: An investigation with the domestic chick

    Robert Colin Honey;Patrick Bateson;Gabriel Horn

  • Loss of the thalamic nuclei for "head direction" impairs performance on spatial memory tasks in rats.

    L. A. K. Wilton;Alison Lambie Baird;Janice L. Muir;Robert Colin Honey

  • Associative components of recognition memory.

    Robert Colin Honey;Mark Andrew Good

  • Functionally distinct memories for imprinting stimuli: Behavioral and neural dissociations

    R. C. Honey;Gabriel Horn;Patrick Bateson;M. Walpole

  • Retrieval-Mediated Learning Involving Episodes Requires Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus

    Mihaela D. Iordanova;Mark Andrew Good;Robert Colin Honey

  • Acquired Equivalence and Distinctiveness of Cues: II. Neural Manipulations and Their Implications

    Etinne Coutureau;Andrew Simon Killcross;Mark Andrew Good;V. J. Marshall

  • Stimulus generalization as a function of stimulus novelty and familiarity in rats.

    Robert Colin Honey

  • The role of the hippocampus in mnemonic integration and retrieval: complementary evidence from lesion and inactivation studies.

    Mihaela D. Iordanova;Dean J. Burnett;John Patrick Aggleton;Mark Andrew Good

  • Enhanced discriminability and reduced associability following flavor preexposure

    Robert Colin Honey;Geoffrey Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Hall
Geoffrey Hall University of York
Patrick Bateson
Patrick Bateson University of Cambridge
John M. Pearce
John M. Pearce Cardiff University
Paul E. Downing
Paul E. Downing Bangor University
Johan J. Bolhuis
Johan J. Bolhuis University of Cambridge
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London
Simon Killcross
Simon Killcross University of New South Wales
Ralph R. Miller
Ralph R. Miller Binghamton University
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University

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