Invited Presentations, Lectures, or Lecture Series (no colloquia included):
The elimination of instrumental avoidance responding to one CS and its simultaneous transfer to a new CS through Pavlovian procedures. Invited (by Konorski) symposium paper at the XVIII International Congress of Psychology, Moscow, Russia, August, 1966. In Classical and Instrumental Conditioning (volume 4 of Proceedings XVIII International Congress of Psychology), 1966, p.183ff (Full Text).
The role of the fish forebrain in learning: A review. Invited paper in the "long symposium" Conditioning in Lower Vertebrates at the XX International Congress of Psychology, Tokyo, August, 1972. Proceedings of the XX International Congress of Psychology, 1972, p. 251. (Abstract)
Expectancies in the transfer-of-control of responses: Motivations or cues. Invited paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May 1976.
The bridge between experimental psychological and neuro-ethology. Invited paper presented at the Neuro-ethology Conference-Workshop, Society for Neuroscience Sixth Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 6-7, 1976.
Punishment, avoidance behavior, and theories of instrumental learning. A series of six hours of lectures to the NATO Advanced Study Institute in Animal Learning, Reisensburg, Germany, December 1976.
The telencephalon of the teleost fish is not a shock-absorber: Its role in learning. Invited paper at Teleost CNS Conference-Workshop, Society for Neuroscience, Seventh Annual Meeting, Anaheim, November 6-7, 1977.
Environmental contingencies as sources of stress in animals. Invited presentation at NATO Symposium on Coping and Health, Bellagio, Italy, March 1979.
The post-asymptotic decrement phenomenon. Invited presentation at Nencki Conference on the Central Mechanisms of Instrumental Conditioning, Jablona, Poland, May 1979.
Teleost telencephalon and learning. Invited presentation at Society for Experimental Biology, Belfast, No. Ireland, July 1979.
Seven factors in learning and performance. One day workshop for Interpersonal Growth Systems (Integro International), Minneapolis, July 1980.
Mechanisms of punishment, avoidance and psychosomatics. An invited series of lectures at the University of Belgrade and at the International Laboratory of Brain Research, Kotor, Yugoslavia, September 1980.
A transfer of control assessment of Solomon's opponent-process model. Invited paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 1983.
Proactive effects of shocks upon later emotional responsivity and the implications for theories of learned helplessness. Invited paper presented at the Second International Conference on Affect and Emotion, Nags Head, North Carolina, June 1984.
Reconsideration of the causal factors in the animal model of learned helplessness. Invited plenary address to 27th Tagung Experimental Arbeitender Psychologen, Wuppertal, Germany, April, 1985.
Psychological determinants of when stressors stress. Invited paper presented at the International Conference on Neural Control of Bodily Function: New Concepts of Regulation of Autonomic, Neuroendocrine, and Immune Systems, Bielefeld, Germany, October, 1985.
Learned helplessness: Glimpses of the past, present, and future -- and feeling helpless. Symposium paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May, 1986.
Historical perspectives on aversively motivated behavior. Invited presentation to International Conference on Aversively Motivated Behavior, Umeaa, Sweden, June, 1987.
Uninomics and Learning Theory. Invited symposium paper presented at American Psychological Association, New York, August, 1987.
The study of aversively motivated behavior: Why and how. Invited presentation to NIMH-NIDA Methods in Neuroscience Workshop, Rockville, MD, December, 1987.
Expectations: From the animal laboratory to the clinic. Presidential Address to the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, April, 1988.
Interfacing the animal laboratory and the clinic. Invited presentation to Minnesota Psychological Association, Minneapolis, May, 1988.
On the specificity of associations and its relevance for both teaching and modeling. Invited symposium presentation to XXIV International Congress of Psychology, Sydney, August, 1988.
United we stand; divided we falter. Invited symposium presentation to American Psychological Association, New Orleans, August, 1989.
When do stressors stress. Invited presentation to the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Gottingen, Germany, September, 1990.
Expectations: From laboratory to clinic. Invited annual Gantt Memorial Lecture to Pavlovian Society of America, Philadelphia, September, 1990.
Animal models and their use in psychological research. International Conference on Research Methods, Bergen, Norway, September, 1990.
Some gut feelings about stress. Presidential Address to Division of Physiological and Comparative Psychology (6) of American Psychological Association, Annual Convention, San Francisco, August, 1991.
Psychological context of past stress experiences modulates later vulnerability to gastric ulcers. Minnesota Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, February, 1992.
Modulation of vulnerability to stress ulcers. Invited presentation to North Texas Society of Animal Learning and Behavior, Arlington, TX, April, 1992.
On the generality of a principle of learning. Invited symposium presentation at XXV International Congress of Psychology co-sponsored by the International Society of Comparative Psychology, Brussels, August 1992.
Stress modulation of disease. Invited symposium at the XXV International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, August, 1992. International Journal of Psychology, 27 (3/4), 180. (Abstract)
Some reflections on learned helplessness and stress research. Invited address to the Japanese Psychonomic Society, Tokyo, Japan, April, 1993.
New principle of reinforcement and its application. Invited address to the Western Japan Psychological Association, Uegahara, Japan, May, 1993.
Expectations about expectancies. Presidential Address to Division of Experimental Psychology ( 3), American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Toronto, August, 1993.
What we can expect from the laboratory. Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Minnesota Psychological Association, St. Paul, November, 1993.
New is old, old is new; it is all relative. Invited symposium presentation at the Pavlovian Society, Morristown, NJ, October, 1993. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 1994, 29, 96.(Abstract)
Can animal learning still inform the practicing psychologist? Invited lecture at Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, April, 1994.
Systematic analysis of effects of stress pre-, mid-, and post-ulcer induction. Invited lecture to the Research Center for Psychobiology and Psychosomatics and to the University of Trier, Trier, Germany, May, 1995.
A reappraisal of learned helplessness theory. Invited lecture to Departments of Psychology and Medical Psychology at University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, May, 1995.
The fundamental role of animal models for understanding human dysfunction. Invited lecture at Asian-Pacific Regional Conference, Guangzhou, China, August 1995.
Forebrain lesions and learning in fish. Invited lecture in Universidad de Seville Ciclo de Conferences, Seville, Spain, September, 1995.
Specific reward expectations as cues for behavior. Invited Keynote Address VII Congreso de la Sociedad Espanola de Psicologia Comparada, Bilbao, Spain, September, 1995.
From the laboratory to the clinic. Invited lecture to the 15th Annual Regional Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, April 1996.
Lessons from studies with animals and their implications for human psychobiological health. Invited Convened symposium at International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, August, 1996. International Journal of Psychology, 31 (3/4), 4-5.(Abstract)
Learned helplessness: State or stasis of the art. Invited State of the Art Lecture at XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Canada, August, 1996. International Journal of Psychology, 31 (3/4), 452.(Abstract)
Stress and gastric ulcers: A psychological analysis. Invited lecture to Departments of Medical Psychology and of Gastroenterology, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf Germany, September, 1996.
Mediation in psychological theories of learning: Implications from laboratory to clinic. Invited series of lectures University of Seville, Seville, Spain, March, 1997.
Does stress play a role in gastric ulcer disease? Invited presentation to the 69th Midwestern Psychological Association meeting, Chicago, IL, May, 1997.
Musing about memory and being of two minds. Presidential address to 101st Annual Meeting of Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society, Minnesota Chapter, Minneapolis, May, 1997.
Biological Integration: Psychoneuroimmunology-The final hurdle. Invited symposium presentation to the Pavlovian Society, Baltimore, MD, September, 1997. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 1998, 33, 94.(Abstract)
Community settings as "laboratory" for research on basic learning processes. Invited address to Minnesota Psychological Association special conference "Bridging the Gap", St. Paul, MN, October, 1997
The Executive Monkey revisited: Artifacts, facts, and factors. Invited presentation to Pavlovian Society, Duesseldorf, Germany, October, 1998. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 1999, 34, 116.(Abstract)
Evidence for conditioning effects on gastric ulcer development in animals. Invited lecture presentation to Pavlovian Society, Duesseldorf, Germany, October, 1998. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 1999, 34, 115.(Abstract)
Behavioral analyses of memory and potential therapeutic applications in Korsakoff's disease. Invited presentation to NIDA Training Program Minnesota Medications Development Center, Minneapolis, January, 1999.
Does cytokine activation affect working memory? Invited presentation to Institute for Brain and Immune Disorders, Minnesota Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, March, 1999.
New animal model of memory and its application to human clients. Sigma Xi National Lecture to San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, March, 1999.
New animal model of memory and its application to human clients. Sigma Xi National Lecture to Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, April, 1999.
Psychological research with animals advances human welfare. Keynote address to the African Psychology Congress, Durban, South Africa, July, 1999.
Being of two minds. Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, October, 1999
Sigma Xi National Lecture to Western Maryland College,
Westminster, MD, November, 1999.
Expectations: From the animal laboratory to the clinic.
13th Annual Quad-L Lecture University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, January, 2000.
Advancing human welfare through animal research on memory. Sigma Xi National Lecture to University of Montana, Bozeman, MT, February, 2000.
Thinking about memory and being of two minds. Sigma Xi National Lecture to University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, February, 2000.
Research with animal models contributes to solving human problems. Sigma Xi National Lecture to University of Tennessee, Martin, TN, April, 2000.
Animal models of human psychological dysfunction. An invited series of lectures to the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, May, 2000.
What animal models can tell us about designing psychobiological interventions studies with humans. Symposium presentation, 23rd European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, Oslo, Norway, June, 2000. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2000, 48, 219.(Abstract)
Contemporary Research on Learned Helplessness and Learned Irrelevance in Humans and Animals: National Trends. Invited Convened Symposium at XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000. International Journal of Psychology,, 2000, 35 (3/4), 373.(Abstract)
The re-psychosomatization of peptic ulcer disorders. Invited lecture presented to Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Annapolis, MD, October, 2000.
Thinking about memory and being of two minds. Sigma Xi National Lecture to Mayo Institute, Rochester, MN, January, 2001.
From the laboratory to the clinic: A modern parable. Conferencista Magisterial at the XI Congreso Mexicano de Psicologia, Mexico City, February, 2001. Revista Mexicana de Psicologia, 2001, 18, 2 (Abstract).
Thinking about memory and being of two minds. Sigma Xi National Lecture to Senior Science Society at University of Wisconsin at Fox Valley and Continuing Education Center, Appleton, WI, February, 2001.
Countering the biologization of a psychosomatic disorder. Invited presentation to Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May 2001 [Abstract PsycEXTRA]
Does psychology play a role in gastric ulcer? Mind & Emotion Sesquicentennial
Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May, 2001.
Expectancies of reward: Some experiments on functions, context, and mechanisms. Departments of Neuroscience and Sciences of Health and of Basic Psychology, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain, April, 2002.
Primitive processes are ‘fundamental’, not irrelevant. Invited keynote address to the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology, Orviedo, Spain, April, 2002.
Choosing, naming, and remembering: Primitive associative processes are fundamental. Presidential address to Society of General Psychology, Toronto, Canada, August, 2003.
External events are internalized in the gut. Invited symposium presentation to International Congress of Ulcer Research, Cavtat, Croatia, September, 2003.
Science: Chicken or Egg. Invited address to Minnesota Psychological Association, Bloomington, Minnesota, May, 2004.
Trauma and resulting effects are modulated by psychological factors. Invited lecture at the international symposium Somatization, Sensitization, and Psychosomatic Medicine in honor of Dr.Med. Holger Ursin sponsored by the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology of the University of Bergen (Norway), June 2-4, 2004
Sensitization and conditioning as contributors to gastro-intestinal vulnerability. Invited lecture at the Pavlov Centenary Symposium “Integrative Physiology and Behavior” sponsored by the Pavlov Institute of Physiology and the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Pavlov’s Nobel Prize, June 19-22, 2004.
Extending the history of animal laboratory contributions to the clinic. The Board of Scientific Affairs’ Annual Neal E. Miller Lecture (invited) to the American Psychological Association Convention, Honolulu, July, 2004.
Differential outcomes in creating new behaviors—variability, reinforcement and behavioral emergents. Invited symposium presentation to the American Psychological Association Convention, Honolulu, July, 2004.
Learning in a world of scholars in International research collaborations. Invited symposium presentation to International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, August 9, 2004. International Journal of Psychology, 2004, 39, p.34 (Abstract).
Science education in psychology and quality assurance. Invited presentation in Capacity Building for National Associations of Psychologists Workshop at Beijing Language University, August 13-15, 2004.
Simple associations as primary determiners of choice behavior in animals and humans. Special invited lecture at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Iztacala, February 23, 2005.
Series of workshops on ‘Learning & Memory’. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Iztacala, February 21-25, 2005, as Visiting Professor.
Gastric ulcers: Psychosomatic or not, and why you should care. !6th Annual Texas Psi Chi Convention, Texas Christian University, February 5, 2005.
Can animal laboratory research help to help Korsakoff patients with their memory problems. Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, April 26, 2005.
Research underpinning of practice: Chicken or egg? Invited Keynote address at the 9th European Congress of Psychology, Granada, Spain, July, 2005.
On different forms of policy statements. Invited presentation to the Symposium
“Policy implications of applied psychology” at the 9th European Congress of
Psychology, Granada, Spain, July 2005.
The basic science of applied psychology. Keynote address to the Asian Applied
Psychology International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, November 14, 2005.
From the laboratory to the clinic: Animal models as key tools. Invited presentation to Scandinavian Laboratory Animal Science meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 7, 2006.
So you want to see your name in print. Invited presentation at Institutt for
Samfunnspsykologi conference ”Fra ide til produkt: En dag med fokus paa
formidling”, Bergen, Norway, June 9, 2006.
Animal model foundations for therapy development. Invited presentation at Institutt
for Biologisk og Medisinisk Psykologii, Bergen, Norway, June 12, 2006.
Psychosomatics: The Cartesian Conundrum. Invited keynote address at International
Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July, 2006.
On influencing policy. Invited presentation at 5th World Forum of the International
Psychological Associations. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens,
Greece, July, 2006.
Globalization, hegemony, and indigenization. Invited presentation at Roundtable
Discussion “Toward the globalization of psychology”, International Congress of
Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July, 2006.
Clinical Practice and Lessons Learned from the Animal Laboratory. Invited keynote
address at 30th Anniversary Turkish Psychological Association Congress, Ankara,
Turkey, September 6, 2006. http://www.psikon06.hacettepe.edu.tr/index_files/Page5876.htm
Science, applications, regulation, and organizations. Invited keynote address 80th
Anniversary Japanese Psychological Society meeting, Tokyo, Japan, October 1,
2006.
Ulcers: Are they Nobel-er in the gut or the mind. Invited annual John P. Zubek Memorial Lecture in Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MT, Canada, October 13, 2006.
Psychological science matters for applied psychology. Invited address at Defense Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi, India, December 8, 2007
Study of basic associative processes contributes to our understanding in cognitive science. Invited keynote address at International Conference on Cognitive Science, Allahabad, India, December 10 ,2007
Wise clinical practice recognizes roots in basic sciences. Invited keynote address at XVI National Academy of Psychology Annual Conference, Mumbai, India, December 14, 2007.
Specialized versus general education in psychology: Their benefits and costs. Invited address at Conference on Integrated Education in Psychology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, February, 2007.
Stress induced gastro-intestinal vulnerability: Modulation by psychological variables.
Invited keynote address at the 2nd Middle East North African Regional Conference of
Psychology, Amman, Jordan, April, 2007.
Lessons Learned from the Animal Laboratory Contribute to Clinical Practice. Invited
keynote address at the XXXI Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Mexico City,
Mexico, July, 2007.
How basic animal research strengthens the science and practice of psychology.
Conferencia Inaugural Plenaria at XI Reunion Associacion Argentina de Ciencias del
Comportamiento. Mendoza, Argentina, September 6, 2007.
Basic and applied psychology contribute to a harmonious society. Invited keynote address to the 11th National Conference of the Chinese psychological Society, Haifeng, China, November 8, 2007.
Common challenges in our discipline. Invited symposium presentation to the 11th National Conference of the Chinese psychological Society, Haifeng, China, November 10, 2007.
The laws of learning are always in effect. Presidential address to International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July, 2008.
Where do treatments come from?: One overlooked source. The Bjorn Christiansen Memorial Lecture, Bergen, Norway, September, 2008
The re-psychosomatization of gastric ulcers: Social sciences do have a role after all.
Invited lecture Växjö -Linnean University, Växjö, Sweden, September, 2008.
Writing for international journals: What you need to know. Invited lecture to Center for Cognitive Studies, Tehran, Iran, March, 2009.
Primitive associative processes contribute to cognitions and choice. Keynote address to 3rd International Congress on Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran, March, 2009.
Animal models of human psychobiological dysfunction. Invited workshop at the
3rd International Congress on Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran, March, 2009.
Selected, forgotten foundations of clinical psychology as an empirical discipline. Keynote address at Minnesota Psychological Association Annual Convention, April, 2009.
Centrifugal or centripetal forces in psychology: It depends on where the center is. Keynote address to European Congress of Psychology, July 10, 2009. http://www.ecp2009.no/pop.cfm?FuseAction=Doc&pAction=View&pDocumentId=18223 (Abstract)
The psychological clinic and the animal laboratory: Strange bedfellows or
natural allies? American Psychological Foundation Arthur W. Staats Lecture on the
Unification of Psychology Award at American Psychological Association
Convention, August 7, 2009.
Evidence-based practice may start in the animal laboratory: Selected examples past and
present. Invited Keynote Address to International Congress of Applied
Psychology, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2010.
Response unique reinforcers enhance learning, performance, and recall especially in
learning challenged individuals. Invited address Minnesota Northland Association for
Behavior Analysis, Minneapolis, September 21, 2010.
Environmental contingencies determine what neural system will store memories. Invited
address to the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, November 18,
2010.
Psychology does play a role in gastric ulcers: challenging the Helicobacter pylori
theory. Invited Keynote address to the 13th Congress of the Chinese Psychological Society,
Shanghai, November 20, 2010
Physiological psychology has a new dress, is dating widely, and soon leaving home
completely! Invited Europlat Symposium paper in the symposium “Psychology and
Neuroscience” at 12th European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, July 5,
2011.
Extending our applications of psychological science. Invited symposium on
“Challenges, opportunities, and future developments in applied psychology
internationally” at American Psychological Association, August 4, 2011.
Some reflections on becoming a behavioral scientist. Invited keynote presentation at the
celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en
Psicologia Matematica y Experimental (CIIPME), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August,
2011.
Paths to success in scientific psychology. Opening keynote presentation to the XIII Reunion de la Association Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento (AACC), Entre Rios, Argenrtina, August 2011.
Basic psychological science in support of clinical practice: A new illustrative example of unacknowledged contributions. Invited Keynote Lecture to the XIX Congresso
Mexicana de Psicología , Cancun, Mexico, October 21, 2011.
Alcohol Use Disorders and Behaviour Change : Research Advances from Behavioural
Neuroscience to Public Health. Invited Symposium at XXXth International Congress of
Psychology, Capetown, South Africa, July, 2012
Jeff Bitterman in my classroom. Invited symposium presentation at American
Psychological Association Convention, Orlando, August, 2012.
Model Madness. Keynote address at International Congress of Comparative Psychology.
Bogota, Colombia, September, 2014.
Assessing biological constraints: Methodological issues. Invited Symposium
presentation at International Congress of Comparative Psychology. Bogota, Colombia,
September, 2014.
Some unrecognized origins of clinical psychological treatments. Invited J.P. Scott Distinguished Lecture, Center for Neuroscience, Mind, & Behavior, Bowling green State University, Bowling Green OH, April 1, 2015.
The struggle to understand the origins of gastric ulcer. Invited lecture to Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH, April 2, 2015.
Is fMRI the answer? Invited presentation to 1st Congreso Internacional Neuro-Management. Bogota, Colombia, May 2015.
Survival of comparative psychology may depend upon linking animal laboratory to the health clinic. Invited presentation Conference on Comparative Cognition. Melbourne, Fl, April 2016.
Neuroscience of motivation and behavior as guided by psychology of learning. Invited address at the International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan. July, 2016.
Recognizing that comparative psychology provides empirical foundations for many clinical practices. Invited D.O. Hebb Award Address at American Psychological Association Convention, Denver, CO. August 2016.
Gastrointestinal vulnerability is modulated by psychological factors: Basic psychological science in support of clinical practice. George A Miller Award Address at American Psychological Association, Washington D.C., August 2017
Origins of Learned Helplessness: A personal Perspective. XXXI Simposio de la Sociedad
Española de Historia de la Psicología (SEHP) and X Simposio de la Asociación de Motivación y Emoción (AME), Universidad de Murcia, 24-26 May 2018
Acorns From a Mighty Oak. The invited Richard L. Solomon Distinguished Lecture at Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), Boston, March 2020.
Basic differential outcomes phenomena. Madrid Science and Innovation Week, November, 2020. (As part of a national video conference, Madrid, Spain , Dr. Victoria Plaza chairperson).
Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture at American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN, August 2022
Presentations at Meetings:
(Many of these are jointly with my student-colleagues or my international colleagues—not uncommonly with them as first author. Archival references provided as available.)
Discriminative classical conditioning in unrestrained subjects can control the performance of subsequently as well as previously learned avoidance responses. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, St. Louis, September, 1962. American Psychologist, 1962, 17, 350.
Classical conditioning under curare with two UCS durations subsequently results in differential instrumental responding. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Los Angeles, September, 1964. American Psychologist, 1964, 19, 525.
Effects of discriminative Pavlovian fear conditioning upon previously or subsequently acquired avoidance responding. Paper presented to Pennsylvania Psychological Association Convention. University Park, May 1965. Pennsylvania Psychologist, 1965 (July), p. 3. [Awarded 1sr Prize]
Specific and permanent deficits in avoidance learning following forebrain ablation in the goldfish. Paper presented at Eastern Psychological Association Convention, New York, April, 1966. American Psychologist, 1966, 21, 883.
The elimination of instrumental avoidance responding to one CS and its simultaneous transfer to a new CS through Pavlovian procedures. Paper presented at the XVIII International Congress of Psychology, Moscow, Russia, August, 1966. In Biological and Physiological Problem in Psychology (volume of abstracts of Proceedings XVIII International Congress of Psychology), 1966, p 126. (Abstract.)
Specific and permanent deficits in avoidance learning following forebrain ablation in the goldfish. Paper presented at XVIII International Congress of Psychology, Moscow, Russia, 1966. In Biological and Physiological Problem in Psychology (volume of abstracts of Proceedings XVIII International Congress of Psychology), 1966, p 320. (Abstract.)
Failure to avoid traumatic shock. Paper presented at the joint Western Conference of Experimental Psychology and Western Conference of Brain Neurophysiology and Brain Research, Tahoe City, CA, January, 1968. (This it turns out was the 1st of the continuing annual Brain Research Conferences). Communications in Behavioral Biology, Part B, 1968, 1 (May). 05681119.
Facilitation and inhibition of avoidance behavior using Pavlovian procedures. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, May, 1968. American Psychologist, 1968, 23, 636.
Failure to show associative loss as the source of avoidance deficits following forebrain ablation in goldfish. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, September, 1968. . Proceedings of the 76th Annual Convention of the(American Psychological Association,1968, 3, 289-290 (Abstract). American Psychologist, 1968, 23, 886.
Transfer of control of avoidance is not dependent upon the maintenance of the original discriminative response. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, September, 1968. Proceedings of the 76th Annual Convention of the(American Psychological Association,1968, 3, 143-144 (Abstract). American Psychologist, 1968, 23, 890
Relative preferences for auditory patterns. Paper presented at the XIX International Congress of Psychology, London, England, July, 1969. Proceedings XIX International Congress of Psychology, 1971, p.185. (Abstract)
Incompatibility of appetitive and aversive conditioned motivation. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, DC, September, 1969. Proceedings of the 77th Annual Convention of the(American Psychological Association, Part 1, 1969, 4, 97-98( Abstract). American Psychologist, 1969, 24, 1134.
Acquisition of an instrumental avoidance response using classical appetitive CS+ and CS-. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Cincinnati, May, 1970. American Psychologist, 1970, 25, 811.
Contingency, contiguity, and aversive Pavlovian conditioning. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Cleveland, May, 1972. American Psychologist, 1972, 27, 820.
Interactions between Pavlovian- and instrumental-conditioning procedures: Recent developments. Symposium presentation at American Psychological Association Convention, Honolulu, September, 1972. Proceedings of 80th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Part 2, 1972, 885. Also American Psychologist, 1972, 27, 1158.
Non-differential trace classical conditioning of heart rate in normal and forebrainless goldfish. Abstract Guide of XXth International Congress of Psychology, Tokyo, Japan, August, 1972, p.482. (Long Abstract)
Animal models of psychopathology. Symposium presentation at American Psychological Association Convention, New Orleans, September, 1974
Avoidance responding is not escape from CS. Paper presented at American Psychological Association Convention, New Orleans, September, 1974.
What mediates the “Advance” response strategy? Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May, 1975.
The influence of maternal iron overload on the growth and behavior of mature rat offspring. Paper presented at American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, September, 1975.
Interference with avoidance behavior in dogs as an interaction of the qualitative properties of pre-shock. Paper presented at Psychonomics Society meeting, Denver, November, 1975. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society: 1975, 6, 438.
Teleost telencephalon and secondary reinforcement. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May 1978.
Effects of cranial irradiation of young rats impairs later learning and growth. Paper presented at American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, September, 1978.
Background cues do not become excitatory. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, St. Louis, May, 1980.
Inferring prepared association: The appropriate control. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, St. Louis, May, 1980.
Choice behavior mediated by anticipatory frustration. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, St. Louis, May, 1980.
The effect of the predictability and controllability of shocks on cortisol in the dog. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Detroit, May, 1981.
Shock predictability and controllability: Cortisol reactivity to subsequent aversive experience. . Paper presented at American Psychological Association Convention, Los Angeles, September, 1981.
Behavioral responses of dairy cattle to controlled electric shocks. Paper presented at American Dairy Science Society, University Park, PA, June, 1982 (With Norell, Appleman, & Gustafson).
Serial ablations of the teleost telencephalon and avoidance learning by goldfish. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, San Diego, November, 1983. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1983, 16, 337
Modulating the comparative effectiveness of Pavlovian conditioned inhibition and differential training. Paper presented at the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, June, 1985. Canadian Psychology, 1985, 26 (2a), No. 563.
Prior exposure to a stressor modulates later gastric responsivity to that stressor. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, Boston, November, 1985. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1985, 18, 303.
The effects of Pavlovian CS-‘s on instrumental behavior are reinforce-specific. Paper presented at Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, June, 1986. Canadian Psychology, 1986, 27 (2a), No. 622.
Hemispheric asymmetry and human classical conditioning: Effects of lateralized CS
presentations. Paper presented at Society for Psychophysiological Research,
Montreal, August, 1986. Psychophysiology, 1986, 23, 443.(Abstract)
Safety signals can mimic responses in reducing the ulcerogenic effects of prior shock. Poster presented at XVII International Congress of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. Bergen, Norway, July 1986.
Differences in associative structure among five types of Pavlovian inhibitors. Poster presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May, 1987.
On signaled and unsignaled backward conditioning: Effects of US preexposure, delay, and context shift. Paper presented at Canadian Psychological Association , Vancouver, June, 1987. Canadian Psychology, 1987, 28 (2a), No. 660.
Visions of sugar-plums: Children use reward expectancies in learning. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, April, 1988.
HPA-axis manipulations and stress ulcerations in rats. Paper presented at the XIX International Congress of the Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Groningen, August, 1988. Neuro Endocrinology Letters, 1988, 10, 261.(Abstract.)
\ Also see Canadian Psychology, 1988, 29 (2a), No. 842.
Learned irrelevance versus US habituation: Instability of pre-exposure effects. American Psychological Society, Alexandria, June, 1989.
Effects of noise stimulation on immunoreactivity and thermal responsiveness. Poster presented at American Psychological Association Annual Convention (Science Weekend), New Orleans, August, 1989.
Mentally retarded clients can use expectancies to guide choices. Paper presented the 23rd Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Mental Retardation, Brainerd, April, 1990.
On the relation between acquired equivalence and transfer of control. Winter Conference on Animal Learning IX, Denver, January, 1991.
Does scopolamine affect rat memory like it does human memory. Paper presented at American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, August 1, 1991.
Opioid versus nonopioid proactive effects of shocks on gastric ulcers. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, November, 1991. [Abstract in PsycExtra]
Proactive effects on gastric ulcers of multiple intermittent shocks are opioid mediated while those of comparable single shock are not. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, November, 1991. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1991.(Abstract)
Visual stimulus characteristics in distraction strategies which increase pain tolerance. Poster presented at American Pain Society, 1992.
Serial stressors and gastric ulceration. Paper presented at the Pavlovian Society, Morristown NJ, September, 1993. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 1994, 29, 95.(Abstract)
Effects of acute and chronic beta-amyloid protein on memory. Oral paper presented at Neuroscience Society, Washington, November, 1993.
I expect animals expect. Paper presented to Society of Experimental Psychologists, Princeton NJ, April, 1994.
Dopaminergic system sensitivity and stress gastric ulcerations. Paper presented at joint Collegium Internationale Activitatis Nervosae Superioris and the joint Pavlovian Society meeting, Prague, 1994. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 1995, 30, 106.(Abstract.)
Classic Experiments in two-process theory of avoidance. Paper given at XIII Winter
Conference on Animal Learning, Denver, 1995.
Yes, stress really does cause ulcers. Paper presented at Society of Experimental Psychologists, Tempe, AZ, March, 1995.
Reinforcers unique to arms reduce immediate post-delay errors in radial maze. Poster at American Psychological Society, Philadelphia, June, 1995
Assessing contemporary research on addiction and alcoholism. In symposium at American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA, August 1995.
Acquired equivalence in clients with Prader-Willi syndrome: Facilitation of acquisition and transfer by differential outcomes. Paper given at XIV Winter Conference on Animal Learning, Denver, January, 1996
Evidence of negative priming in older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Poster presented at American Psychological Society, June, 1996
Scientist-practitioner split: A scientist's view of the issues. American Psychological Association, Toronto, August, 1996.
A brief overview of learned helplessness. In symposium at Pavlovian Society annual meeting, Baltimore, November, 1996.
Proactive effects of stress: Are we ignoring the lower end of the scale? Paper at Pavlovian Society annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, November, 1996. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 32, 187.(Abstract)
Pavlovian analog to learned helplessness: General learned irrelevance across stimuli and contexts. Poster presented at American Psychological Society, Washington, June, 1997.
Multiple differential outcomes facilitate acquisition of a spatial conditional discrimination. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association, Chicago, August, 1997
Does acute systemic inflammation disrupt short-term memory processes? Poster presented at "Cytokines in the brain." Neuroscience Society Satellite Symposium, New Orleans, LA, October, 1997. Neuroimmunomodulation, 1997, 4, 216-217.(Abstract)
Attention-dependent semantic priming and inhibition of return in older adults with Alzheimer's disease. Poster at 7th Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 1998.
Attention network functioning in younger adults, older adults, and adults with Alzheimer's disease. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society meeting, Cambridge, England, April 3, 1998
Does the flu impair cognitive processes? Paper presented at the Winter Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Denver's Winter Park, January, 1999.
Short-term memory deficits can be moderated with use of sample specific outcomes. Poster presented at Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, May, 1999
Associatively activated representations of food events resemble food-outcome expectancies more closely than food based memories. Poster presented at American Psychological Society Convention, Denver, June 1999
Reviewing the review process and some unasked questions. Paper in a symposium, Checks and Balances in the IACUC Process, presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Boston, August, 1999.
Inhibition of return in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, April 2000
Animal laboratory research contributions to advancing patient care. Paper presented in a invited symposium, Behavioral Interventions Can Aid Learning and Access Forms of Memories to Overcome Neurological Dysfunctions, at Pavlovian Society annual meeting, Annapolis, MD, October, 2000.
The effects of ethanol priming on ethanol-seeking behavior in dependent and non-dependent rats. Paper presented at 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
Modern learning theory perspectives on the etiology of panic disorder. Invited Discussant at Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August, 2001.
Stimulus class and memory in adults with and without memory impairment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, November, 2001. Marotta, M. E., Hochhalter, A. K., Bakke, B. L. , McCarten, J. R., & Overmier, J.B. Gerontologist, 2001, 41, 233-234 (Special Issue).(Abstract)
The spaced-retrieval effect may not depend on errorless learning.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, November, 2001.
Characteristics of training important to the spaced retrieval effect. Paper presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, November, 2002.
Differential outcomes effect in children: the role of S-O and R-O associations. Congress of Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology, Orviedo, Spain, April, 2002.
Effects of lipopolysaccharide on consolidation of partial learning in the Y-Maze. Poster presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May 2003.
Differential rewards help me learn. Poster presented at American Psychological Society, Atlanta, May, 2003.
The use of unique rewards as a training tool. Paper presented at 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, August 9, 2004. International Journal of Psychology, 2004, 39, p. 109 (Abstract).
Differential outcomes training yields evidence for acquired equivalence in pigeons. Poster presented at American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2005.
Differential outcomes training yields evidence for acquired equivalence in
pigeons. Poster presented at the Conference for Comparative Cognition,
Melbourne FL, March 19, 2006.
Differential outcomes facilitate the acquisition of avoidance learning in humans.
Poster at XVIII Meeting of the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology, Malaga, Spain,
September 3-5, 2006.
Saturday Night Fever. Poster at Pavlovian Society annual meeting, Philadelphia, September 15, 2006.
Effects of reversing a conditional discrimination with differential outcomes in human beings. Society Experimental Psychology Congress, Jaen, Spain. 2008
Remember when: The search for episodic-like memory in pigeons. Poster
at 16th Annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, Fl,
March, 17, 2009.
Linking basic and applied science: The case of the differential outcomes procedure/Introduction. Symposium paper at the Psychonomic Society International Conference in Granada, Spain. May, 2016