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| Anthony A WrightSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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How to be proactive about interference: lessons from animal memoryAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 77030, USA
Psychol Sci 23:453-8. 2012..Implications for comparing memory of different species and different types of memory (e.g., familiarity vs. recollection) are discussed...- Functional relationships for determining similarities and differences in comparative cognitionAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical School, University of Texas Health Center at Houston, P O Box 20708, Houston, TX 77225, USA
Behav Processes 85:246-51. 2010.... - Testing pigeon memory in a change detection taskAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiologyand Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 17:243-9. 2010.... - A case for restricted-domain relational learningAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 16:907-13. 2009..The implications of this conclusion are discussed in the context of restricted-domain relational learning... 
Generalization hypothesis of abstract-concept learning: learning strategies and related issues in Macaca mulatta, Cebus apella, and Columba liviaAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Comp Psychol 121:387-97. 2007..Thus, generalization was not a factor in the transfer from these experiments, adding to the evidence that these subjects were learning the S/D abstract concept...- Music perception and octave generalization in rhesus monkeysA A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston 77225, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 129:291-307. 2000..This conclusion implicates similar transduction, storage, processing, and relational memory of musical passages in monkeys and humans and has implications for nature-nurture origins of music perception... 
An experimental analysis of memory processingAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, 77225, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 88:405-33. 2007..The possibility of using the interference function to separate familiarity vs. recollective memory processing is discussed...- Mechanisms of same/different concept learning in primates and aviansAnthony A Wright
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX 77225, USA
Behav Processes 72:234-54. 2006..e., relational processing) leading to full abstract-concept learning... - Monkey auditory list memory: tests with mixed and blocked retention delaysAnthony A Wright
University of Texas Medical School, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, P O Box 20708, Houston, TX 77225, USA
Anim Learn Behav 30:158-64. 2002..The nature of the monkey's auditory memory is discussed... - Learning processes in matching and oddity: the oddity preference effect and sample reinforcementAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and AnatomyUniversity of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77225, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 31:425-32. 2005..The results are discussed in terms of item-specific associations operating early in learning prior to any relational learning between sample and comparison stimuli... - Interference processes in monkey auditory list memoryAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:696-702. 2003..The results point to the critical nature of interference processes in the understanding of serial position functions... - Abstract-concept learning and list-memory processing by capuchin and rhesus monkeysAnthony A Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, P O Box 20708, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 29:184-98. 2003..Qualitative similarity is discussed in relation to general-process versus modular cognitive accounts... - Abstract-concept learning carryover effects from the initial training set in pigeons (Columba livia)Tamo Nakamura
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Comp Psychol 123:79-89. 2009..This finding has implications for the general ability of abstract-concept learning across species with different neural architectures... - Individual differences: either relational learning or item-specific learning in a same/different taskL Caitlin Elmore
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
Learn Behav 37:204-13. 2009.... - Visual short-term memory compared in rhesus monkeys and humansL Caitlin Elmore
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Curr Biol 21:975-9. 2011..Our results open the door to combining the power of psychophysics, computation, and physiology to better understand the neural basis of STM... - The hippocampus and memory of verbal and pictorial materialAndrew C Papanicolaou
Vivian L Smith Center for Neurologic Research, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Learn Mem 9:99-104. 2002..This study demonstrates the specialization of the two medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions, including the hippocampi, for mnemonic processing of verbal and pictorial items that are difficult to encode verbally... - Change detection by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and pigeons (Columba livia)L Caitlin Elmore
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Comp Psychol 126:203-12. 2012..Thus, monkeys were less restricted in their domain to detect change than pigeons, but both species learned the basic task and appear suitable for comparative studies of visual short-term memory... - Object and spatial relational memory in adult rhesus monkeys is impaired by neonatal lesions of the hippocampal formation but not the amygdaloid complexMaria C Alvarado
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA
Hippocampus 12:421-33. 2002..The data suggest a role of the primate hippocampal region in both object and spatial relational learning... - Same/different abstract-concept learning by pigeonsJeffrey S Katz
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 32:80-6. 2006..Comparisons with similar experiments with rhesus and capuchin monkeys showed that the ability to learn the same/different abstract concept was similar but that pigeons require more training exemplars... - Mechanisms of same/different abstract-concept learning by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)Jeffrey S Katz
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, 226 Thach Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 28:358-68. 2002..Contrary to the unique-species account, it is argued that different species have quantitative, not qualitative, differences in abstract-concept learning... - Learning strategies in matching to sample: if-then and configural learning by pigeonsJeffrey S Katz
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Behav Processes 77:223-30. 2008..A., 1997. Concept learning and learning strategies. Psychol. Sci. 8, 119-123] are discussed, including the effect of displaying the stimuli vertically (traditional display orientation) or horizontally from the floor... - Matching-to-sample abstract-concept learning by pigeonsKent D Bodily
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 34:178-84. 2008..These analyses converged to rule out item-specific strategies at all but the smallest set-sizes (3-24 items). Ruling out these possibilities adds to the evidence that pigeons learned the relational abstract concept of matching-to-sample...
Research Grants
- Memory Processing in Primates and AviansAnthony Wright; Fiscal Year: 2009..g., neurophysiological) on how memory works. ..
- Memory Processing in Primates and AviansAnthony Wright; Fiscal Year: 2007..Findings should bear upon general processes of visual memory that are shared among such diverse species as avians and primates. ..
- Learning Processes in Matching-to-Sample by PigeonsAnthony Wright; Fiscal Year: 2005..This research will extend our knowledge of how tasks are learned, problems solved, and conditions that lead to either higher-order concept learning or stimulus-specific learning. ..
- MEMORY PROCEDURES FOR DRUG ASSESSMENTSAnthony Wright; Fiscal Year: 2001..Understanding how memory works and the mechanisms of drugs and drug abuse on memory is necessary for any effective treatment regime. ..
- Memory Processing in Primates and AviansAnthony A Wright; Fiscal Year: 2010..g., neurophysiological) on how memory works. ..