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Overview

Robert G. Cook is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily centered around Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Psychology. Within these fields, their work notably contributes to subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Animal Science and Zoology, Developmental Biology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics investigated in their research include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Child and Animal Learning Development, Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement, and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Within-session dynamics of categorical and memory mechanisms in pigeons, 2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Examining the extents of same/different processing in non-human animals, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Understanding early horse transport in eastern Eurasia through analysis of equine dentition, 2021, Antiquity

Additional coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Robert G. Cook include Muhammad A. J. Qadri, Daniel I. Brooks, Suzanne L. Gray, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, and William Taylor.

Their work has been published in several venues, with a focus on the Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, Learning & Behavior, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Animal Cognition, and Antiquity.

Best Publications

  • Human Amygdala Responsivity to Masked Fearful Eye Whites

    Paul J. Whalen;Jerome Kagan;Robert G. Cook;F. Caroline Davis

  • Memory processing of serial lists by pigeons, monkeys and people

    Anthony A. Wright;Hector C. Santiago;Stephen F. Sands;Donald F. Kendrick

  • Concept learning by pigeons: Matching-to-sample with trial-unique video picture stimuli

    Anthony A. Wright;Anthony A. Wright;Robert G. Cook;Robert G. Cook;Jacquelyne J. Rivera;Stephen F. Sands

  • Flexible Memory Processing by Rats: Use of Prospective and Retrospective Information in the Radial Maze

    Robert G. Cook;Michael F. Brown;Donald A. Riley

  • Structural and Aerodynamic Models in Nonlinear Flight Dynamics of Very Flexible Aircraft

    Rafael Palacios;Joseba Murua;Robert Cook

  • Evidence for large long-term memory capacities in baboons and pigeons and its implications for learning and the evolution of cognition.

    Joël Fagot;Robert G. Cook

  • Implicit and explicit categorization: a tale of four species.

    J. David Smith;Mark E. Berg;Robert G. Cook;Matthew S. Murphy

  • Cognitive precedence for local information in hierarchical stimulus processing by pigeons.

    Kimberley K. Cavoto;Robert G. Cook

  • Spatial memory and the performance of rats and pigeons in the radial-arm maze

    Alan B. Bond;Robert G. Cook;Marvin R. Lamb

  • Robust Gust Alleviation and Stabilization of Very Flexible Aircraft

    Robert G. Cook;Rafael Palacios;Paul Goulart

  • Two-item same-different concept learning in pigeons.

    Aaron P. Blaisdell;Robert G. Cook

  • Pigeons’ categorization may be exclusively nonanalytic

    J. David Smith;F. Gregory Ashby;Mark E. Berg;Matthew S. Murphy

  • The attractiveness to males of female Drosophila melanogaster: effects of mating, age and diet.

    Robert Cook;Anna Cook

  • Pigeon same-different concept learning with multiple stimulus classes.

    Robert G. Cook;Jeffrey S. Katz;Brian R. Cavoto

  • Same-different texture discrimination and concept learning by pigeons.

    Robert G. Cook;Kimberley K. Cavoto;Brian R. Cavoto

  • Variability discrimination in humans and animals: implications for adaptive action.

    Edward A. Wasserman;Michael E. Young;Robert G. Cook

  • Stages of Abstraction and Exemplar Memorization in Pigeon Category Learning

    Robert G. Cook;J. David Smith

  • Capacity and limits of associative memory in pigeons.

    Robert G. Cook;Deborah G. Levison;Sarah R. Gillett;Aaron P. Blaisdell

  • Mechanisms of multidimensional grouping, fusion, and search in avian texture discrimination

    Robert G. Cook;Kimberley K. Cavoto;Brian R. Cavoto

  • Naming, rehearsal, and interstimulus interval effects in memory processing.

    Anthony A. Wright;Robert G. Cook;Jacquelyne J. Rivera;Melissa R. Shyan

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony A. Wright
Anthony A. Wright The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
F. Gregory Ashby
F. Gregory Ashby University of California, Santa Barbara
J. David Smith
J. David Smith Georgia State University
Randolph C. Grace
Randolph C. Grace University of Canterbury
Leah H. Somerville
Leah H. Somerville Harvard University
John T. Wixted
John T. Wixted University of California, San Diego
Jerome Kagan
Jerome Kagan Harvard University
Klaus A. Miczek
Klaus A. Miczek Tufts University
Turhan Canli
Turhan Canli Stony Brook University

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