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McMillan, N., Hahn, A. H., Congdon, J. V., Campbell, K. A., Hoang, J., Scully, E. N., Spetch, M. L., & Sturdy, C. B. (in press). Chickadees discriminate contingency reversals based on performance criterion, but not time or number. Animal Cognition.
Du, Y., McMillan, N., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L. & Mou, W. (in press). Weighted integration of landmarks in spatial search: The role of learning experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
McMillan, N., Spetch, M. L., Sturdy, C. B., & Roberts, W. A. (2017). It’s all a matter of time: Interval timing and competition for stimulus control. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 12, 83-103.
Nankoo, J. F., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Wylie, D. R. (2016). Sensitivity of the avian motion system to light and dark stimuli. Experimental Brain Research, 1-6.
Guillette, L. M., Baron, D. M., Sturdy, C. B., & Spetch, M. L. (2016). Fast- and slow-exploring pigeons differ in how they use previously learned rules. Behavioural Processes.
Madan, C. R., Ludvig, E. A., & Spetch, M. L. (2016). The role of memory in distinguishing risky decisions from experience and description. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-33.
Du, Y., Mahdi, N., Paul, B., & Spetch, M. L. (2016). Cue salience influences the use of height cues in reorientation in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 273-280.
McMillan, N., Sturdy, C. B., Pisklak, J. M. & Spetch, M. L. (2016). Pigeons perform poorly on a midsession reversal task without rigid temporal regularity. Animal Cognition, 19, 855-859.
Du, Y., Spetch, M. L., Mou, W. (2016). Look up: Human adults use vertical height cues in reorientation. Memory & Cognition, 1-11.
Legge, E. L. G., Madan, C. M., Spetch, M. L., & Ludvig, E. A. (2016). Multiple cue use and integration in pigeons (Columba livia). Animal Cognition, 19, 581-591.
McDevitt, M. A., Dunn, R. M., Spetch, M. L., & Ludvig, E. A. (2015). When good news leads to bad choices. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 105, 23-40.
McMillan, N., Hahn, A. H., Spetch, M. L., & Sturdy, C. B. (2015). Avian cognition: Examples of sophisticated capabilities in space and song. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 6, 285-297.
McMillan, N., Sturdy, C. B. & Spetch, M. L. (2015). When is a Choice not a Choice? Pigeons Fail to Inhibit Incorrect Responses on a Go/No-Go Midsession Reversal Task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 41, 255-265.
Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Ludvig, E. A. (2015). Rapid makes risky: Time pressure increases risk seeking in decisions from experience. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 921-928.
Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., & Spetch, M. L. (2015). Priming memories of past wins induces risk seeking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 24-29.
Nankoo, J.-F., Madan, C. R., Wylie, D. R., & Spetch, M. L. (2015). Re-evaluating birds’ ability to detect Glass patterns. Animal Cognition, 18, 945-952.
Nankoo, J.-F., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Wylie, D. R. (2015). Temporal summation of global form signals in dynamic Glass patterns. Vision Research, 107, 30-35. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2014.10.033.
Baron, D. M., Ramirez, A. J., Bulitko, V., Madan, C. R., Greiner, A. & Spetch, M. L. (2015). Practice makes proficient: Pigeons (Columba livia) learn efficient routes on full-circuit navigational traveling salesperson problems. Animal Cognition, 18, 53-64. Doi: 10.1007/s10071-014-0776-6
Legge, E. L. G., Wystrach, A., Spetch, M. L. & Cheng, K. (2014). Combining sky and Earth: Desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) show weighted integration of celestial and terrestrial cues. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217, 4159-4166. doi: 10.1242/jeb.107862
Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., Pisklak, J. M., & Spetch, M. L. (2014). Reward context determines risky choice in pigeons and humans. Biology Letters, 10(8). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0451
Madan, C.R., Ludvig, E.A. & Spetch, M.L. (2014): Remembering the best and worst of times: Memories for extreme outcomes bias risky decisions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 629-636. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0542-9
Nankoo, J.-F., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Wylie, D. R. (2014). Perception of complex motion in humans and pigeons (Columba livia). Experimental Brain Research, 232, 1843-1853. doi:10.1007/s00221-014-3876-2
Madan, C. R., & Spetch, M. L. (2014). Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm. F1000Research, 3, 19. doi:10.12688/f1000research.3-19.v1
Mou, W., Nankoo, J.F., Zhou, R. & Spetch, M.L. (2014). Use of Geometric Properties of Landmark Arrays for Reorientation relative to Remote Cities and Local Objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 476-491. doi:10.1037/a0034976
Ludvig, E.A., Madan, C.R & Spetch, M.L. (2014). Extreme Outcomes Sway Risky Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 27, 146-156. DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1792
Cenkner, A., Bulitko, V., Spetch, M., Legge, E., Anderson, C. & Brown, M. (2014). Passing a Hide and Seek Third-Person Turing Test. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 6, 18-29. DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2013.2275162
Lubyk, D.M., Spetch, M.L., Zhou, R., Pisklak J. & Mou, W. (2013). Reorientation in diamond-shaped environments: Encoding of features and angles in enclosures versus arrays by adult humans and pigeons (Columba livia). Accepted by Animal Cognition, 16, 565–581. DOI 10.1007/s10071-012-0594-77
Mou, W., & Spetch, M. L. (2013). Object location memory: Integration and competition between multiple context objects but not between observers’ body and context objects. Cognition, 126, 181–197, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.018
Nankoo, J. F., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Wylie, D. R. (2012). Perception of dynamic Glass patterns.Vision Research, 75,55–62,pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2012.09.008.
Legge ELG, Spetch ML, Cenkner A, Bulitko V, Anderson C, et al. (2012) Not All Locations Are Created Equal: Exploring How Adults Hide and Search for Objects. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36993. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036993.
Lubyk, D. & Spetch, M.L. (2012). Finding the Best Angle: Pigeons (Columba livia) Weight Angular Information More Heavily than Relative Wall Length in an Open-Field Geometry Task. Animal Cognition, 15: 305-312.
Lubyk, D.M., Dupuis, B., Gutiérrez, L., & Spetch, M.L. (2012). Geometric orientation by humans: angles weigh in. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 19: 436-442 doi:10.3758/s13423-012-0232-z.
Madan, C.R. & Spetch, M.L. (2012). Is the enhancement of memory due to reward driven by value or salience? Acta Psychologica, 139 (2), 343–349
Ludvig, E.A. & Spetch, M.L. (2011). Of black swans and tossed coins: Is the description-experience gap in risky choice limited to rare events? PlosOne. pdfhttp://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020262
Marsh, H.L., Spetch, M.L. & MacDonald, S.E. (2011) Strategies in landmark use by orangutans and human children. Animal Cognition, 14, 487-502. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0382-9
Ludvig, E. A., Balci, F. & Spetch, M.L. (2011) Reward Magnitude and Timing in Pigeons. Behavioural Processes, .86, 359-363. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2011.01.003
Batty, E. R., Spetch, M.L. & Parent, M.B. (2010). Proximity to an edge affects search strategy in adults and children. Behavioural Processes. 85, 265-277. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2010.07.015
Legge, E.L., Spetch, M.L., & Cheng, K. (2010). Not using the obvious: desert ants, Melophorus bagoti, learn local vectors but not beacons in an arena. Animal Cognition, 13, 849-860.
Spetch, M. L. (2010). Understanding how pictures are seen is important for comparative visual cognition.Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5, 163-166. http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html
Weisman, R. G., Spetch, M. L. (2010). Determining When Birds Perceive Correspondence Between Pictures and Objects: A Critique. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5, 117-131.http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html
Dawson, M.R.W., Kelly, D.M, Spetch, M.L & Dupuis, B. (2010). Using perceptrons to explore the reorientation task. Cognition, 114, 207–226.
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Spetch, M.L., Friedman, A., Bialowas, J. & Verbeek, E. (2010). Contributions of category- and fine-grained information to location memory: When categories don’t weigh in. Memory & Cognition, 38, 154-162; doi:10.3758/MC.38.2.154 (View PDF)
Friedman, A., Vuong, Q.C., & Spetch, M.L. (2010). Facilitation by view combination and coherent motion in dynamic object recognition. Vision Research, 50, 202-210. (Request a PDF)
Batty, E. R., Hoban, L., Spetch, M. L. & Dickson, C. T. (2009). Rats’ use of geometric, featural and orientation cues to locate a hidden goal. Behavioural Processes, 82, 327-334. (Request a PDF)
Dawson, M.R.W., Dupuis, B., Spetch, M.L., & Kelly, D.M. (2009). Simple artificial neural networks that match, exploit, and explore when confronting a multiarmed bandit. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20, 1368-1371.
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Batty, E. R., Bloomfield, L. L., Spetch, M. L. & Sturdy, C. B. (2009). Comparing black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli): use of geometric and featural information in a spatial orientation task. Animal Cognition, 12,633-641.
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Legge, E. L., & Spetch, M. L. (2009). The differential outcomes effect (DOE) in spatial localization: An investigation with adults. Learning and Motivation. 40, 313-328.
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Friedman, A., Voung, Q.C. & Spetch, M.L. (2009). View combination in moving objects: The role of motion in discriminating between novel views of similar and distinctive objects by humans and pigeons. Vision Research, 49, 594-607.
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Talbot, K.J., Legge, E.L.G., Bulitko, V. & Spetch, M.L. (2009). Hiding and searching strategies of adult humans 3 in a virtual and a real-space room. Learning and Motivation, 40, 221-233.
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Legge, E.L.G., Spetch, M.L. & Batty, E. R. (2009). Pigeons’ (Columba livia) hierarchical organization of local and global cues in touch screen tasks. Behavioural Processes. 80, 128-139.
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Dawson, M.R.W., Kelly, D.M., Spetch, M.L. & Dupuis, B. (2008) Learning about Environmental Geometry: A Flaw in Miller and Shettleworth’s (2007) Operant Model. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Animal Behavior Process. 34, 415-418.
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Verbeek, E.L. & Spetch, M.L. (2008). Distortions in location memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 15, 328-336.
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David Thue, Vadim Bulitko, Marcia Spetch. 2008. Making Stories Player-Specific: Delayed Authoring in Interactive Storytelling. The First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS ’08). pp. 230-241. Erfurt, Germany. November 26, 2008.
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David Thue, Vadim Bulitko, Marcia Spetch. 2008. PaSSAGE: A Demonstration of Player Modelling in Interactive Storytelling. The Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. pp. 226-227. AAAI Press. Palo Alto, California, USA. October 22, 2008.
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David Thue, Vadim Bulitko, Marcia Spetch. 2008. Player Modeling for Interactive Storytelling: A Practical Approach. AI Game Programming Wisdom. IV: 633-646. Charles River Media. Boston, MA.
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David Thue, Vadim Bulitko, Marcia Spetch, Eric Wasylishen. 2007. Learning Player Preferences to Inform Delayed Authoring. Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies. FS-07-05: 158-161. AAAI Press. Arlington, Virginia. November 9, 2007.
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Twyman, A. Friedman, A. & Spetch, M.L. (2007) Penetrating the Geometric Module: Catalyzing Children’s Use of Landmarks. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1523-1530.
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Thue, D., V Bulitko, ML Spetch and E Wasylishen. “Interactive Storytelling: A Player Modelling Approach.” In Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment conference (AIIDE), 43- 48, Stanford, California. June 2007.
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Brown, A.A., Spetch, M.L. & Hurd, P.L. (2007). Growing in circles: Rearing environment alters spatial navigation in fish. Psychological Science, 18, 569-573.
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Spetch, M.L. & Parent, M.B. (2006). Age and sex differences in children’s spatial search strategies. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 807-812.
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Spetch, M.L., Friedman, A., & Vuong, Q.C. (2006). Dynamic object recognition in pigeons and humans. Learning & Behavior, 34, 215-228.
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Verbeek, E.L., Spetch, M.L., Cheng, K. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2006). Determinants of range effects in face recognition. Learning & Behavior, 34, 229-240.
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Spetch, M. L, & Friedman, A. (2006). Pigeons see correspondence between objects and their pictures. Psychological Science, 17, 966-972.
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Gray, E.R. & Spetch, M.L. (2006). Pigeons encode absolute distance but relational direction from landmarks and walls. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 474-480.
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Spetch, M. L. & Friedman, A. (2006). Comparative cognition of object recognition. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews.1, 12-35. http://www.comparativecognition.org.
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Cheng, K., Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M. & Bingman, V.P. (2006). Small-scale spatial cognition in pigeons. Behavioural Processes, 72, 115-127.
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Spetch, M.L. & Kelly, D.M. (2006. Comparative spatial cognition: Processes in landmark and surface-based place finding. In E. Wasserman and T. Zentall (Eds) Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence, Oxford University Press, pp. 210-228.
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Gray, E.R., Bloomfield, L.L., Ferrey, A., Spetch, M.L., Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Spatial Encoding in Mountain Chickadees: Features Overshadow Geometry, Biology Letters, 1, 314-317.
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Friedman, A., Spetch, M.L., & Ferrey, A. (2005). Recognition by Humans and Pigeons of Novel Views of 3-D Objects and Their Photographs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134,149-162.
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Dawson, M.R.W. & Spetch, M.L. (2005). Traditional perceptrons do not produce the overexpectation effect. Neural Information Processing – Letters and Reviews. 7, 11-17.
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Yaremchuk, V., Willson, L. Spetch, M. & Dawson, M. (2005). The Implications of Null Patterns and Output Activation Functions On Simulation Studies Of Learning: A Case Study Of Patterning. Learning & Motivation, 36, 88-103.
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Nguyen, A.P., Spetch, M.L., Crowder, N,A., Winship, I.R., Hurd P.L., & Wylie, D.R.W. (2004). A Dissociation of Motion and Spatial-Pattern Vision in the Avian Telencephalon: Implications for the Evolution of “Visual Streams”. Journal of Neuroscience, 24(21). 4962-4970.
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MacDonald, S., Spetch. M.L., Kelly, D.M., & Cheng, K. (2004) Strategies in landmark use by children, adults and marmoset monkeys. Learning and Motivation, 35, 322-347.
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Kelly, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (2004). Reorientation in a two-dimensional environment II: Do pigeons encode the featural and geometric properties of a two-dimensional schematic of a room? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 384-395.
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Spetch, M.L., Cheng,K. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2004). Peak shift but not range effects in recognition of faces. Learning and Motivation, 35, 221-241.
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Kelly, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (2004). Reorientation in a two-dimensional environment I: Do adults encode the featural and geometric properties of a two-dimensional schematic of a room? Journal of Comparative Psychology.118, 82-94.
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Gray, E.R., Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M., & Nguyen, A. (2004). “Searching in the center: pigeons encode relative distances from walls of an enclosure”. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 118, 113-117.
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Spetch, M.L., Rust, T.B. , Kamil, A.C. & Jones, J.E. (2003). Searching by Rules: Pigeons= landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 117, 123-132.
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Spetch, M.L. & Friedman, A. (2003). Recognizing rotated views of objects: interpolation versus generalization by humans and pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 10, 135-140.
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Friedman, A., Spetch, M.L. & Lank, I. (2003). An automated apparatus for presenting depth-rotated three-dimensional objects for use in human and animal object recognition research, Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 35, 343-349.
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Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (2002). Spatial generalization and peak shift in humans. Learning and Motivation, 33, 358-389.
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Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (2001). Landmark based spatial memory in pigeons. In (R. Cook, Ed). Avian Visual Cognition. Comparative Cognition Society. http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/cheng
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Kelly, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (2001). Pigeons encode relative geometry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 27, 417-422.
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Kelly, D.M., Bischof, W.F., Wong-Wylie, D.R., & Spetch, M.L. (2001) Detection of Glass Patterns by Pigeons and Humans: Implications for Differences in Higher Level Processing. Psychological Science, 12, 338-342.
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Spetch, M.L, Friedman, A, & Reid, S.. (2001) The Effect of Distinctive Parts on Recognition of Depth-Rotated Objects by Pigeons and Humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 218-225.(Request a PDF)
Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (2001). Blocking in landmark-based search in honeybees. Animal Learning & Behavior, 29, 1-9.
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Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M. & Reid, S. (2000). Recognition of objects and spatial relations in pictures across changes in viewpoint. In J. Fagot (Ed.), Picture Perception in Animals. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, pp. 107-141.
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Kelly, R, & Spetch, M.L. (2000). Choice biases in delayed matching-to-sample duration with pigeons: Manipulations of ITI and delay illumination. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55B, 309-323.(Request a PDF)
Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M. & Reid, S. (1999). Recognition of objects and spatial relations in pictures across changes in viewpoint. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 18, 729-764.(Request a PDF)
Bischof, W.F., Reid, S.L., Wylie, D.R.W., & Spetch, M.L. (1999). Perception of coherent motion in random dot displays by pigeons and humans, Perception & Psychophysics, 61. 1089-1101.
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Kelly, R., Spetch, M.L. & Grant, D.S. (1999) Influence of nonmemorial factors on manifestation of short-sample biases in choice and successive matching-to-duration tasks with pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes., 25, 297-307.
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Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (1998). Mechanisms of landmark use in mammals and birds. In S. Healy (Ed.). Spatial Representation in Animals, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-17.
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Kelly, D.M., Spetch, M.L. & Heth, C.D. (1998). Pigeons’s encoding of geometric and featural properties of a spatial environment. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 112, 259 269.
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Reid, S. & Spetch, M.L. (1998). Perception of Pictorial Depth Cues by Pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 5, 698 704.
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Spetch, M.L. & Cheng, K. (1998). A step function in pigeons’s temporal generalization in the peak shift task. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 103-118.
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Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M., & Lechelt, D.P. (1998). Encoding of spatial information in images of an outdoor scene by pigeons and humans. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 85-102.
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Grant, D.S., Spetch, M.L., & Kelly, R. (1997). Pigeons’s coding of event duration in delayed matching-to-sample. In C.M. Bradshaw & E. Szabadi (Eds.), Advances in Psychology (Vol 120): Time and Behavior: Psychological and Neuro-behavioral Analyses. Amsterdam: Elsevier/ North Holland, pp. 217-264.
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McDevitt, M.A., Spetch, M.L., & Dunn, R. (1997) Contiguity and Conditioned Reinforcement in Probabilistic Choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 68, 317-327.
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Lechelt, D.P. & Spetch, M.L. (1997). Pigeons’ use of landmarks for spatial search in a laboratory arena and in digitized images of the arena. Learning and Motivation, 28, 424-445.
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Cheng, K., Spetch, M.L., & Johnston, M. (1997). Spatial peak shift and generalization in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 469-481.
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Spetch, M.L., Cheng, K., MacDonald, S.E., Linkenhoker, B. A., Kelly, D.M., & Doerkson, S.R. (1997). Use of landmark configuration in pigeons and humans: II. Generality across search tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111. 14-24.
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Spetch, M.L., Cheng, K., & MacDonald, S.E. (1996). Learning the configuration of a landmark array, I: Touch screen studies with pigeons and humans. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, 55-68.
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Spetch, M.L., Grant, D.S., & Kelly, R. (1996). Procedural determinants of coding processes in pigeons’ memory for duration. Learning and Motivation, 27, 179-199.
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Cheng, K., Spetch, M.L., & Miceli, P. (1996). Averaging temporal duration and spatial position. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 175-182.
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Spetch, M.L. (1995). Overshadowing in landmark learning: Touch-screen studies with pigeons and humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 21, 166-181.
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Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (1995). Stimulus control in the use of landmarks by pigeons in a touch-screen task. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 63, 187-201.
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Belke, T.W., & Spetch, M.L. (1994). Choice between reliable and unreliable reinforcement alternatives revisited: Preference for unreliable reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 62, 353-366.
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Spetch, M.L. & Wilkie, D.M. (1994). Pigeons’ use of landmarks presented in digitized images. Learning and Motivation, 25, 245-275.
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Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1994). The role of asymmetrical coding of duration samples in producing the choose-short effect in pigeons. Learning and Motivation, 25, 413-430.
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Spetch, M.L., Mondloch, M.V., Belke, T., & Dunn, R. (1994). Determinants of pigeons’ choice between certain and probabilistic outcomes. Animal Learning and Behavior, 22, 239-251.
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Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1994). Mediated transfer testing provides evidence for common coding of duration and line samples in many-to-one matching in pigeons. Animal Learning & Behavior, 22, 84-89.(Request a PDF)
Spetch, M.L. & Mondloch, M.V. (1993). Control of pigeons’ spatial search by graphic landmarks in a touch-screen task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 353-372.
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Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1993). Memory for duration in pigeons: Dissociation of choose-short and temporal-summation effects. Animal Learning & Behavior, 21, 384-390.
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Spetch, M.L. & Grant, D.S. (1993). Pigeons’ memory for event duration in choice and successive matching-to-sample tasks. Learning and Motivation, 24, 156-174.
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Grant, D.S., & Spetch, M.L. (1993). Analogical and nonanalogical coding of samples differing in duration in a choice-matching task in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 15-25.
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Spetch, M.L. & Rusak, B. (1992). “Time Present and Time Past.” In W.K. Honig and G. Fetterman (Eds.). Cognitive Aspects of Stimulus Control. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 47-68.
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Spetch, M.L., Cheng, K., & Mondloch, M. (1992). Landmark use by pigeons in a touch-screen spatial search task. Animal Learning & Behavior, 20, 281-292.
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Spetch, M.L. & Rusak, B. (1992). Temporal context effects in pigeons’ memory for event duration. Learning and Motivation, 23, 117-144.
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Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1991). Pigeons’ memory for event duration: Differences between choice and successive matching tasks. Learning and Motivation, 22, 180-199.
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Spetch, M.L., Moore, B.R., & Madden, R.C. (1990). Are navigational errors by homing pigeons near Jersey Hill/Hornell, N.Y. due to misleading olfactory information? Animal Behaviour, 40, 402-404.
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Spetch, M.L. (1990). Further studies of pigeons’ spatial working memory in the open-field task. Animal Learning & Behavior, 18, 332-340.
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Spetch, M.L., Belke, T.W., Barnet, R.C., Dunn, R., & Pierce, W.D. (1990). Suboptimal choice in a percentage reinforcement procedure: Effects of signal condition and terminal link length. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 53, 219-234.
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Dunn, R. & Spetch, M.L. (1990). Choice with uncertain outcomes: Conditioned reinforcement effects. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 53, 201-218.
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Spetch, M.L, Sinha, S.S. (1989). Proactive effects in pigeons’ memory for event duration: Evidence for analogical retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 15, 347-357.(Request a PDF)
Spetch, M.L. & Rusak, B. (1989). Pigeons’ memory for event duration: Intertrial interval and delay effects. Animal Learning & Behavior, 17, 147 156.
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Spetch, M.L. & Honig, W.K. (1988). Characteristics of pigeons’ spatial working memory in an open field task. Animal Learning & Behavior, 16, 123 131.
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Spetch, M.L. & Edwards, C.A. (1988). Pigeons’ (Columba livia) use of global and local cues for spatial memory. Animal Behaviour, 36, 293 296.
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Spetch, M.L. (1987). Systematic errors in pigeons’ memory for event durations: Interaction between training and test delay. Animal Learning & Behavior, 15, 1 5.
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Spetch, M.L. & Dunn, R. (1987). Choice between reliable and unreliable outcomes: Mixed percentage reinforcement in concurrent chains. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 47, 57 72.
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Spetch, M.L. & Edwards, C.A. (1986). Spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia) in an open field feeding environment. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 100, 266 278.
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Spetch, M.L. & Treit, D. (1986). Does effort play a role in the effect of response requirements on delayed matching to sample? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 45, 19 31.
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Treit, D., & Spetch, M.L. (1986). Caloric regulation in the rat: Control by two factors. Physiology & Behavior, 36, 311 317.
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Spetch, M.L. (1985). The effect of intertrial interval food presentations on pigeons’ delayed matching to sample accuracy. Behavioural Processes, 11, 309 315.
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Spetch, M.L. & Treit, D. (1984). The effect of d amphetamine on short time memory for time in pigeons. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Behavior, 21, 663 666.
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Treit, D., Spetch, M.L. & Deutsch, J.A. (1984). Caloric regulation in the rat: Evidence for a calibration mechanism. Physiology & Behavior, 32, 883 886.
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Treit, D., Spetch, M.L. (1984). Effect of gastric reduction surgery on consummatory behavior in the rat. Behavioral Neuroscience, 98, 361 365.
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Treit, D., Spetch, M.L., & Deutsch, J.A. (1983). Variety in the flavor of food enhances eating in the rat. Physiology & Behavior, 30, 207 211.
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Spetch, M.L. & Wilkie, D.M. (1983). Subjective shortening: A model of pigeons’ memory for event duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 9, 14 30.
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Spetch, M.L. & Wilkie, D.M. (1982). A systematic bias in pigeons’ memory for food and light durations. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 2, 267 274.
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Treit, D., & Spetch, M.L. (1982). Advances toward a biological theory of aversive conditioning: Flirtation or commitment? (commentary) The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 684 685.
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Wilkie, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (1981). Pigeons’ delayed matching to sample errors are not always due to forgetting. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 1, 317 323.
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Spetch, M.L., Wilkie, D.M., & Pinel, J.P.J. (1981). Backward conditioning: A reevaluation of the empirical evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 89, 163 175.
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Spetch, M.L. & Wilkie, D.M. (1981). Duration discrimination is better with food access as the signal than with light as the signal. Learning and Motivation, 12, 40 64.
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Spetch, M.L.,, Wilkie, D.M., & Skelton, R.W. (1981). Control of pigeons’ keypecking topography by a schedule of alternating food and water reward. Animal Learning & Behavior, 9, 223 229.
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Wilkie, D.M., Spetch, M.L., & Leader, L.G. (1981). Control of pigeons’ keypecking by the left right arrangement of stimuli. Animal Learning & Behavior, 9, 2 8.
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Wilkie, D.M., Summers, R.J., & Spetch, M.L. (1981). Effect of delay interval stimuli on delayed symbolic matching to sample in the pigeon. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 35, 153 160.
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Wilkie, D.M., Spetch, M.L., & Chew, L. (1981). The ring dove’s short term memory capacity for spatial information. Animal Behaviour, 29, 639 641.
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Spetch, M.L., & Wilkie, D.M. (1980). A program that simulates random choice in radial arm mazes and similar choice situations. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 12, 377 378.
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Skelton, R.W., Spetch, M.L., & Wilkie, D.M. (1980). A method for automatically recording topographical differences in pigeons’ keypecking for food and water reinforcers. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 12, 349 352.
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Wilkie, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (1980). Control of pigeons’ keypecking by a conditional clock. The Psychological Record, 30, 251 260.
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Wilkie, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (1978). The effect of sample and comparison ratio schedules on delayed matching to sample in the pigeon. Animal Learning & Behavior, 6, 273 278.
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