Aaron Paul Blaisdell

Title(s)Professor, Psychology
SchoolCollege of Letters and Science
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    SUNY Stony Brook, New YorkBA06/1991Anthropology
    Kent State University, OhioMA06/1996Anthropology
    Binghamton University, New YorkPhD06/1999Behavioral Neuroscience

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    Associative Mechanisms of Spatial Cognition
    NIH R01NS059076Jun 1, 2008 - May 31, 2013
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Temporal Integration of Learned Behavior
    NIH R03MH070633Jan 1, 2005 - Dec 31, 2007
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Associative Mechanisms of Spatial Cognition
    NIH R01MH066855Dec 1, 2003 - Nov 30, 2007
    Role: Principal Investigator
    AVIAN SAME/DIFFERENT CONCEPT LEARNING AND PERCEPTION
    NIH F32MH012531Aug 1, 1999
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Evidence for a general cognitive structure in pigeons (Columba livia). Anim Cogn. 2024 Nov 02; 27(1):74. Flaim M, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 39488653; PMCID: PMC11531426.
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    2. Differences in paradoxical choice between pigeons (Columba livia) and rats (Rattus norvegicus): The problem of cue trackability. J Comp Psychol. 2024 Nov; 138(4):276-288. Anselme P, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 38753383.
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    3. Impact of equivalence class training on same/different learning by pigeons. J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn. 2024 Oct; 50(4):247-253. Cook RG, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 38661630.
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    4. A special role for anterior cingulate cortex, but not orbitofrontal cortex or basolateral amygdala, in choices involving information. Cereb Cortex. 2024 Apr 01; 34(4). González VV, Zhang Y, Ashikyan SA, Rickard A, Yassine I, Romero-Sosa JL, Blaisdell AP, Izquierdo A. PMID: 38610085; PMCID: PMC11014886.
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    5. A special role for anterior cingulate cortex, but not orbitofrontal cortex or basolateral amygdala, in choices involving information. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 19. González VV, Ashikyan SA, Zhang Y, Rickard A, Yassine I, Romero-Sosa JL, Blaisdell AP, Izquierdo A. PMID: 37577596; PMCID: PMC10418268.
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    6. Using repeatability of performance within and across contexts to validate measures of behavioral flexibility. PeerJ. 2023; 11:e15773. McCune K, Blaisdell A, Johnson-Ulrich Z, Sevchik A, Lukas D, MacPherson M, Seitz B, Logan CJ. PMID: 37605750; PMCID: PMC10440059.
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    7. Inhibition and paradoxical choice. Learn Behav. 2023 12; 51(4):458-467. González VV, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 37145372; PMCID: PMC10716068.
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    8. The conjunction fallacy in rats. Psychon Bull Rev. 2023 Aug; 30(4):1564-1574. González VV, Sadeghi S, Tran L, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 36795245; PMCID: PMC10482799.
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    9. Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick's law. Behav Processes. 2023 Mar; 206:104838. Flaim M, Guo J, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 36716901.
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    10. The effect of age on delay performance and associative learning tasks in pigeons. Learn Behav. 2023 09; 51(3):281-294. Flaim M, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 36624334; PMCID: PMC10506936.
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    11. Dopamine errors drive excitatory and inhibitory components of backward conditioning in an outcome-specific manner. Curr Biol. 2022 07 25; 32(14):3210-3218.e3. Seitz BM, Hoang IB, DiFazio LE, Blaisdell AP, Sharpe MJ. PMID: 35752165.
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    12. Evidence for object-place binding in pigeons in a sequence-learning procedure. Learn Behav. 2022 09; 50(3):405-416. Blaisdell AP, Schroeder JE. PMID: 35378692; PMCID: PMC9468098.
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    13. Elements of a compound elicit little conditioned reinforcement. J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn. 2022 Jan; 48(1):67-72. González VV, Seitz BM, Formaker R, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 34843335.
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    14. Higher-Order Conditioning in the Spatial Domain. Front Behav Neurosci. 2021; 15:766767. Bouchekioua Y, Kosaki Y, Watanabe S, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 34887735; PMCID: PMC8650001.
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    15. Higher-Order Conditioning and Dopamine: Charting a Path Forward. Front Behav Neurosci. 2021; 15:745388. Seitz BM, Blaisdell AP, Sharpe MJ. PMID: 34671247; PMCID: PMC8520911.
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    16. The role of inhibition in the suboptimal choice task. J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn. 2021 Oct; 47(4):429-444. González VV, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 34855433.
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    17. Eating behavior as a new frontier in memory research. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 08; 127:795-807. Seitz BM, Tomiyama AJ, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 34087276.
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    18. Using touchscreen equipped operant chambers to study animal cognition. Benefits, limitations, and advice. PLoS One. 2021; 16(2):e0246446. Seitz BM, McCune K, MacPherson M, Bergeron L, Blaisdell AP, Logan CJ. PMID: 33606723; PMCID: PMC7894864.
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    19. The comparative analysis of intelligence. Psychol Bull. 2020 12; 146(12):1174-1199. Flaim M, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 33211505.
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    20. Spatial inference without a cognitive map: the role of higher-order path integration. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2021 02; 96(1):52-65. Bouchekioua Y, Blaisdell AP, Kosaki Y, Tsutsui-Kimura I, Craddock P, Mimura M, Watanabe S. PMID: 32939978.
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    21. Evidence that novel flavors unconditionally suppress weight gain in the absence of flavor-calorie associations. Learn Behav. 2020 09; 48(3):351-363. Seitz BM, Flaim ME, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 32056147.
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    22. Mental imagery in animals: Learning, memory, and decision-making in the face of missing information. Learn Behav. 2019 09; 47(3):193-216. Blaisdell AP. PMID: 31228005.
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    23. The Effects of Energy Drink Consumption on Cognitive and Physical Performance in Elite League of Legends Players. Sports (Basel). 2019 Aug 22; 7(9). Thomas CJ, Rothschild J, Earnest CP, Blaisdell A. PMID: 31443435; PMCID: PMC6784180.
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    24. Learning and performance: A tribute to the contributions of Ralph R. Miller. Behav Processes. 2018 09; 154:1-3. Blaisdell AP. PMID: 30072111.
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    25. ARENA 2.0: The next generation automated remote environmental navigation apparatus to facilitate cross-species comparisons in behavior and cognition. Behav Res Methods. 2018 04; 50(2):773-785. Schroeder J, Garlick D, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 28577278.
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    26. Spatial integration during performance in pigeons. Behav Processes. 2018 Sep; 154:73-80. Blaisdell AP, Schroeder JE, Fast CD. PMID: 29274761; PMCID: PMC6013331.
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    27. Across sex and age: Learning and memory and patterns of avian hippocampal gene expression. Behav Neurosci. 2017 Dec; 131(6):483-491. Kosarussavadi S, Pennington ZT, Covell J, Blaisdell AP, Schlinger BA. PMID: 29189019; PMCID: PMC5721522.
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    28. Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues. PeerJ. 2017; 5:e4058. Shragai T, Ping X, Arakaki C, Garlick D, Blumstein DT, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 29204320; PMCID: PMC5712464.
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    29. An obesogenic refined low-fat diet disrupts attentional and behavioral control processes in a vigilance task in rats. Behav Processes. 2017 May; 138:142-151. Blaisdell AP, Biedermann T, Sosa E, Abuchaei A, Youssef N, Bradesi S. PMID: 28323074.
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    30. Serial pattern learning in pigeons: Rule-based or associative? J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn. 2017 01; 43(1):30-47. Garlick D, Fountain SB, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 27598058; PMCID: PMC5017536.
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    31. Imagine that! Cue-evoked representations guide rat behavior during ambiguous situations. J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn. 2016 Apr; 42(2):200-11. Fast CD, Biedermann T, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 26881900; PMCID: PMC4824646.
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    32. Learning history and cholinergic modulation in the dorsal hippocampus are necessary for rats to infer the status of a hidden event. Hippocampus. 2016 06; 26(6):804-15. Fast CD, Flesher MM, Nocera NA, Fanselow MS, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 26703089; PMCID: PMC4866895.
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    33. Extinction and spontaneous recovery of spatial behavior in pigeons. J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn. 2015 Oct; 41(4):371-7. Leising KJ, Wong J, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 26437383; PMCID: PMC4598953.
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    34. Behavioral evidence illuminating the visual abilities of the terrestrial Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus. Behav Processes. 2015 Sep; 118:47-58. Ping X, Lee JS, Garlick D, Jiang Z, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 26051192.
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    35. Blocking between landmarks during 2-D (touchscreen) and 3-D (ARENA) search tasks with pigeons. Learn Behav. 2014 Dec; 42(4):357-64. Leising KJ, Wong J, Ruprecht CM, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 25209533; PMCID: PMC4221440.
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    36. Food quality and motivation: a refined low-fat diet induces obesity and impairs performance on a progressive ratio schedule of instrumental lever pressing in rats. Physiol Behav. 2014 Apr 10; 128:220-5. Blaisdell AP, Lau YL, Telminova E, Lim HC, Fan B, Fast CD, Garlick D, Pendergrass DC. PMID: 24548685.
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    37. Spatial integration of boundaries in a 3D virtual environment. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2013 Oct; 144(2):316-23. Bouchekioua Y, Miller HC, Craddock P, Blaisdell AP, Molet M. PMID: 23933001.
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    38. From heart beats to health recipes: The role of fractal physiology in the Ancestral Health movement. J Evol Health. 2013; 1(1). Blaisdell AP, Pottenger BC, Torday JS. PMID: 29354666; PMCID: PMC5774630.
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    39. Quantifying personality in the terrestrial hermit crab: different measures, different inferences. Behav Processes. 2012 Oct; 91(2):133-40. Watanabe NM, Stahlman WD, Blaisdell AP, Garlick D, Fast CD, Blumstein DT. PMID: 22766352.
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    40. Rats distinguish between absence of events and lack of evidence in contingency learning. Anim Cogn. 2012 Sep; 15(5):979-90. Waldmann MR, Schmid M, Wong J, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 22744612; PMCID: PMC3424288.
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    41. Food choice in the laboratory pigeon. Behav Processes. 2012 Sep; 91(1):129-32. Biedermann T, Garlick D, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 22750307; PMCID: PMC3404163.
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    42. Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): implications for attention. Behav Processes. 2012 Sep; 91(1):26-9. Ryan KM, Blumstein DT, Blaisdell AP, Stahlman WD. PMID: 22643163.
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    43. Factors that influence negative summation in a spatial-search task with pigeons. Behav Processes. 2012 Jul; 90(3):357-63. Leising KJ, Sawa K, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 22503862; PMCID: PMC3372616.
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    44. Temporal properties of visual search in pigeon target localization. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2012 Apr; 38(2):209-16. Cook RG, Katz JS, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 22250790.
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    45. Rats are sensitive to ambiguity. Psychon Bull Rev. 2011 Dec; 18(6):1230-7. Fast CD, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 21968926.
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    46. Overshadowing between landmarks on the touchscreen and in arena with pigeons. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2011 Oct; 37(4):488-94. Leising KJ, Garlick D, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 21604908.
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    47. Pigeon and human performance in a multi-armed bandit task in response to changes in variable interval schedules. Learn Behav. 2011 Sep; 39(3):245-58. Racey D, Young ME, Garlick D, Pham JN, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 21380732.
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    48. The Modulation of Operant Variation by the Probability, Magnitude, and Delay of Reinforcement. Learn Motiv. 2011 Aug 01; 42(3):221-236. Stahlman WD, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 21731111; PMCID: PMC3128391.
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    49. Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus). Behav Processes. 2011 Sep; 88(1):7-11. Stahlman WD, Chan AA, Blumstein DT, Fast CD, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 21756986.
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    50. Attributional and relational processing in pigeons. Front Psychol. 2011; 2:14. Garlick D, Gant DJ, Brakel LA, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 21713177; PMCID: PMC3111252.
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    51. Perceived intensity of somatosensory cortical electrical stimulation. Exp Brain Res. 2010 Jun; 203(3):499-515. Fridman GY, Blair HT, Blaisdell AP, Judy JW. PMID: 20440610; PMCID: PMC2875471.
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    52. Response variability in pigeons in a Pavlovian task. Learn Behav. 2010 May; 38(2):111-8. Stahlman WD, Young ME, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 20400731.
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    53. Effect of reward probability on spatial and temporal variation. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2010 Jan; 36(1):77-91. Stahlman WD, Roberts S, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 20141319.
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    54. Behavioral research in pigeons with ARENA: an automated remote environmental navigation apparatus. Behav Processes. 2009 May; 81(1):105-13. Leising KJ, Garlick D, Parenteau M, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 19429204; PMCID: PMC2680771.
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    55. Blocking of spatial control by landmarks in rats. Behav Processes. 2009 May; 81(1):114-8. Stahlman WD, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 19429205.
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    56. Associative Basis of Landmark Learning and Integration in Vertebrates. Comp Cogn Behav Rev. 2009 Jan 01; 4:80-102. Leising KJ, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 20607101; PMCID: PMC2895939.
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    57. The special status of actions in causal reasoning in rats. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2008 Aug; 137(3):514-27. Leising KJ, Wong J, Waldmann MR, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 18729713.
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    58. Capacitive sensors for detecting proximity and response. Behav Res Methods. 2008 May; 40(2):613-21. Badelt SW, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 18522073.
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    59. Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats. Learn Behav. 2007 Feb; 35(1):11-8. Leising KJ, Sawa K, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 17557387.
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    60. An assessment of context-specificity of the CS-preexposure effect in Pavlovian excitatory and inhibitory conditioning. Behav Processes. 2006 Jul; 73(1):84-91. Nakajima S, Takahashi K, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 16675159.
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    61. Short-term item memory in successive same-different discriminations. Behav Processes. 2006 Jun 01; 72(3):255-64. Cook RG, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 16631322.
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    62. Causal reasoning in rats. Science. 2006 Feb 17; 311(5763):1020-2. Blaisdell AP, Sawa K, Leising KJ, Waldmann MR. PMID: 16484500.
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    63. Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons. Psychon Bull Rev. 2005 Dec; 12(6):1005-10. Roper KL, Chaponis DM, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 16615320.
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    64. Sensory preconditioning in spatial learning using a touch screen task in pigeons. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2005 Jul; 31(3):368-75. Sawa K, Leising KJ, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 16045391.
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    65. Capacity and limits of associative memory in pigeons. Psychon Bull Rev. 2005 Apr; 12(2):350-8. Cook RG, Levison DG, Gillett SR, Blaisdell AP. PMID: 16082818.
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    66. Two-item same-different concept learning in pigeons. Learn Behav. 2005 Feb; 33(1):67-77. Blaisdell AP, Cook RG. PMID: 15971494.
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    67. Temporal coding in conditioned inhibition: analysis of associative structure of inhibition. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2004 Jul; 30(3):190-202. Denniston JC, Blaisdell AP, Miller RR. PMID: 15279510.
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    68. Integration of spatial maps in pigeons. Anim Cogn. 2005 Jan; 8(1):7-16. Blaisdell AP, Cook RG. PMID: 15221636.
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    69. Backward conditioning: mediation by the context. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2003 Jul; 29(3):171-83. Chang RC, Blaisdell AP, Miller RR. PMID: 12884677.
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    70. The S-R information stream: where's the filter? Integr Physiol Behav Sci. 2003 Apr-Jun; 38(2):146-65. Blaisdell AP. PMID: 14527183.
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