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Publications

Thrailkill, E. A., DeSarno, M., & Higgins, S. T. (2024). Clustering of behavioral economic biases in decision-making and risk for cigarette smoking and other substance use in women and men. Preventive Medicine, 186, 108072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108093 

Dougherty, R. J., Thrailkill, E. A., Mohammed, Z., VonDoepp, S., Hilton-VanOsdall, E., Charette, S., Van Horn, S., Quirk, A., Kraus, A., & Toufexis, D. J. (2024). Acute stress facilitates habitual behavior in female rats. Physiology & Behavior, 114456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114456

Watson, P., Thrailkill, E. A., Corbit, L. H., & Bouton, M. E. (2024). Introduction to the special issue: Goal direction and habit in operant behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 121, 3-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.901 

Thrailkill, E. A., & Daniels, C. W. (2024). The temporal structure of goal-directed and habitual operant behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 121, 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/JEAB.896

Thrailkill, E. A. (2023). Partial reinforcement extinction and omission effects in the elimination and recovery of discriminated operant behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition,  49(3), 194–207. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000354 

Thrailkill, E. A., DeSarno, M., & Higgins, S. T. (2023). Loss Aversion predicts cigarette smoking status across levels of sociodemographic characteristics. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000665 

Thrailkill, E. A., DeSarno, M., & Higgins, S. T. (2023). Loss aversion and current, never, and former cigarette smoking status. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 25(7), 1277-1282.  https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntad043 

Thrailkill, E.A. (2022). Hippocampus and neocortex send and receive predictive information. Learning & Behavior, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00563-z 

Thrailkill, E. A., DeSarno, M., & Higgins, S. T. (2022b). Intersections between environmental reward availability, loss aversion, and delay discounting as potential risk factors for cigarette smoking and other substance use. Preventive Medicine, 165B, 107270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107270 

Thrailkill, E. A., DeSarno, M., & Higgins, S. T. (2022a). Loss aversion and risk for cigarette smoking and other substance use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 232, 109307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109307 

Thrailkill, E. A. & Alcalá, J. A., (2022). Relapse after incentivized choice: A laboratory model for studying behavior change. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 30(2), 220–234. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000443 

Bouton, M. E., Allan, S. M., Tavakkoli, A., Steinfeld, M. R., & Thrailkill, E. A. (2021). Effect of context on the instrumental reinforcer devaluation effect produced by taste aversion learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 476-489. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000295 

Thrailkill, E. A., Michaud, N. L., & Bouton, M. E. (2021). Reinforcer predictability and stimulus salience promote discriminated habit learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 47(2), 183–199. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000285 

Bouton, M. E., Thrailkill, E. A., Trask, S., & Alfaro, F. (2020). Correction of response error vs. stimulus error in the extinction of discriminated operant learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 398-407. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000267 

Thrailkill, E. A., Todd, T. P., & Bouton, M. E. (2020). Effects of CS duration, intertrial interval, and I/T ratio on appetitive Pavlovian conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 243–255. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000241 

Thomas, C. M., Thrailkill, E. A., Bouton, M. E., & Green, J. T. (2020). Inactivation of the prelimbic cortex attenuates operant responding in both physical and behavioral contexts. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 171, 107189 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107189 

Bouton, M. E., Broomer, M., Rey, C. N., & Thrailkill, E. A.  (2020). Unexpected food outcomes can return a habit to goal-directed action. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 169, 107163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107163

Rey, C. N., Thrailkill, E. A., Goldberg, K. L., & Bouton, M. E. (2020). Relapse of operant behavior after response elimination with an extinction or an omission contingency. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 113, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.568 

Steinfeld, M., Alcalá, J. A., Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2019). Renewal in a heterogeneous behavior chain: Extinction of the first response prevents renewal of a second response when it is separately extinguished and returned to the chain. Learning and Motivation, 68, 101587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2019.101587 

Thrailkill, E. A.,  Ameden, W. C., & Bouton, M. E. (2019). Resurgence in humans: Reducing relapse by increasing generalization between treatment and testing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45, 338-349. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000209 

Thrailkill, E. A., Trask, S., Alcalá, J., Vidal, P., & Bouton, M. E. (2018). Stimulus control of actions and habits: A role for reinforcer predictability and attention in the development of habitual behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44, 370-384. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000188 

Thrailkill, E. A., Porritt, F., Kacelnik, A., & Bouton, M. E. (2018). Maintaining performance in searching dogs: Evidence from a rat model that training to detect a second (irrelevant) stimulus can maintain search and detection responding. Behavioural Processes, 157, 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.09.012 

Thrailkill, E. A., Kimball, R., Craig, A. R., Podlesnik, C. A., & Kelley, M. E. (2018). Basic and translational evaluation of spontaneous recovery of operant responding. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 109, 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.307

Miles, O. W., Thrailkill, E. A., Linden, A., May, V., Bouton, M. E., & Hammack, S. E. (2017). Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis mediates stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking in rats. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 978-986. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2017.135

Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2017). Factors that influence the persistence and relapse of discriminated behavior chains. Behavioural Processes, 141, 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2017.04.009 

Bouton, M. E., Thrailkill, E. A., Bergeria, C., & Davis, D. (2017). Preventing relapse after incentivized choice treatment: A laboratory model. Behavioural Processes. 141, 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2017.02.005  

Trask, S., Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2017). Occasion setting, inhibition, and the contextual control of extinction in Pavlovian and instrumental (operant) learning. Behavioural Processes, 137, 64-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.10.003 

Todd, T. P., & Thrailkill, E. A. (2017). Extinction. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. 7, pp. 1408-1410). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483365817.n562

Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2017). Effects of outcome devaluation on instrumental behaviors in a discriminated heterogeneous chain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, 88-95. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000119 

Thrailkill, E. A., Trott, J. M., Zerr, C. L., & Bouton, M. E. (2016). Contextual control of chained instrumental behaviors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 401-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000112 

Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2016). Extinction and the associative structure of heterogeneous instrumental chains. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 133, 61-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2016.06.005  

Thrailkill, E. A., Porritt, F., Kacelnik, A., & Bouton, M. E. (2016). Increasing the persistence of a heterogeneous behavior chain: Studies of extinction in a rat model of search behavior of working dogs. Behavioural Processes, 129, 44-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.05.009 

Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2016). Extinction of chained instrumental behaviors: Effects of consumption extinction on procurement responding. Learning & Behavior, 44, 85-96. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-015-0193-y

Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2015). Extinction of chained instrumental behaviors: Effects of procurement extinction on consumption responding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 41, 232-246. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000064 

Thrailkill, E. A., & Bouton, M. E. (2015). Contextual control of instrumental actions and habits. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 41, 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000045 

Thrailkill, E. A., Epstein, L. H., & Bouton, M. E. (2014). Effects of inter-food interval on the variety effect in an instrumental food-seeking task: Clarifying the role of habituation. Appetite, 84, 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.09.015 

Thrailkill, E. A., & Shahan T. A. (2014). Temporal integration and instrumental conditioned reinforcement. Learning & Behavior, 42, 201-208. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-014-0138-x 

Thrailkill, E. A., & Shahan T. A. (2012). Resistance to change and relapse of observing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 97, 279-302. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2012.97-281 

Podlesnik, C. A., Thrailkill, E. A., & Shahan, T. A. (2012). Differential reinforcement and resistance to change of divided attention performance. Learning & Behavior, 40, 158-169. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-011-0052-4 

Podlesnik, C. A., Jimenez-Gomez, C., Thrailkill, E. A., & Shahan, T. A. (2011). Temporal context, preference, and resistance to change. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 96, 191-213. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2011.96-191 

Barker, D. J., Sanabria, F., Lasswell, A., Thrailkill, E. A., Pawlak, A. P., & Killeen, P. R.   (2010). Bright light as a practical aversive stimulus for the albino rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 214, 402-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2010.06.020 

Sanabria, F., Thrailkill, E. A., & Killeen, P. R. (2009). Timing with opportunity cost: Concurrent schedules improve peak timing. Learning & Behavior, 37, 217-229. https://doi.org/10.3758/LB.37.3.217 

Sanabria, F., & Thrailkill, E. (2009). Pigeons (Columba livia) approach Nash Equilibrium in Experimental Matching Pennies Competitions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 91, 169-183. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2009.91-169

 Killeen, P. R., Posadas-Sanchez, D., Johansen, E. B. & Thrailkill, E. A. (2009). Progressive ratio schedules of reinforcement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012497