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William A. Roberts publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 181 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

William A. Roberts D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1990 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

William A. Roberts is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on subfields including Social Psychology, Animal Science and Zoology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The main topics addressed in Roberts' work cover Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Child and Animal Learning Development, Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, and Human-Animal Interaction Studies.

Roberts has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Rat spatial memory and foraging on dual radial mazes" (2023), published in Learning & Behavior
  • "An operant analog of food caching in the pigeon (Columba livia)" (2021), published in Learning & Behavior
  • "The olfactory capability of dogs to discriminate between different quantities of food" (2021), published in Learning & Behavior
  • "No evidence for future planning in Canada jays (Perisoreus canadensis)" (2021), published in Biology Letters
  • "Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives" (2021), published in Behavioural Processes

Frequent co-authors in Roberts' work include Shayla M. Jackson, Glynis K. Martin, R.J. Martin, David F. Sherry, and Krista Macpherson.

Roberts has published extensively in venues such as Learning & Behavior, ASA Monitor, Biology Letters, and Behavioural Processes.

Among professional recognitions, Roberts was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1998 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Are Animals Stuck in Time

    William A. Roberts

  • Dependence of the GABAA receptor gating kinetics on the alpha-subunit isoform: implications for structure-function relations and synaptic transmission.

    K J Gingrich;W A Roberts;R S Kass

  • Short-term memory in the pigeon: Effects of repetition and spacing

    William A. Roberts

  • The sensory basis of spatial memory in the rat

    Lucia Zoladek;William A. Roberts

  • Processes of Animal Memory

    Douglas L. Medin;William Albert Roberts;Roger T. Davis

  • Dietary correlates of hyperactive behavior in children.

    Ronald J. Prinz;William A. Roberts;Elaine Hantman

  • Concept learning at different levels of abstraction by pigeons, monkeys, and people.

    William A. Roberts;Dwight S. Mazmanian

  • Remembrance of places lasts: Proactive inhibition and patterns of choice in rat spatial memory

    William A. Roberts;Robert H.I. Dale

  • Short-term memory in the pigeon with presentation time precisely controlled

    William A. Roberts;Douglas S. Grant

  • Principles of Animal Cognition

    William Albert Roberts

  • Episodic-Like Memory in Rats: Is It Based on When or How Long Ago?

    William A. Roberts;Miranda C. Feeney;Krista MacPherson;Mark Petter

  • Free recall of word lists varying in length and rate of presentation: A test of total-time hypotheses.

    William A. Roberts

  • Spatial memory in the rat on a hierarchical maze

    William A Roberts

  • Timing light and tone signals in pigeons.

    William A. Roberts;Ken Cheng;Jerome S. Cohen

  • Some observations of the effects of intertrial interval and delay on delayed matching to sample in pigeons.

    William A. Roberts;Philipp J. Kraemer

  • Can a pigeon simultaneously process temporal and numerical information

    William A. Roberts;Stephen Mitchell

  • The use of capnography for recognition of esophageal intubation in the neonatal intensive care unit

    Roberts Wa;Maniscalco Wm;Cohen Ar;Litman Rs

  • Judgments of ordinality and summation of number symbols by squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus).

    Anneke Olthof;Caron M. Iden;William A. Roberts

  • Anticipation of future events in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) and rats (Rattus norvegicus): Tests of the Bischof-Kohler hypothesis.

    Mariam Naqshbandi;William A. Roberts

  • The comparative study of mental time travel

    William A. Roberts;Miranda C. Feeney

Frequent Co-Authors

Dwight Mazmanian
Dwight Mazmanian Lakehead University
M. E. Bitterman
M. E. Bitterman University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thomas E. Salt
Thomas E. Salt University College London
Anthony A. Wright
Anthony A. Wright The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Marcia L. Spetch
Marcia L. Spetch University of Alberta
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
Gordon J. Mogenson
Gordon J. Mogenson University of Western Ontario
C. Nadine Wathen
C. Nadine Wathen University of Western Ontario
Robert S. Kass
Robert S. Kass Columbia University

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