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Self-control without a "self"?: common self-control processes in humans and dogsHolly C Miller
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 21:534-8. 2010..These findings provide the first evidence that self-control relies on the same limited energy resource among humans and nonhumans. Our results have broad implications for the study of self-control processes in human and nonhuman species...- "Counting" by pigeons: discrimination of the number of biologically relevant sequential eventsRebecca M Rayburn-Reeves
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Learn Behav 38:169-76. 2010..This procedure represents a sensitive and efficient method for studying numerical competence in animals... - The case of the disappearing bone: dogs' understanding of the physical properties of objectsKristina F Pattison
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Behav Processes 85:278-82. 2010..That is they appear to understand that an object (such as a screen) should not be able to pass through another object (such as dog bone)... 
Imitation and emulation by dogs using a bidirectional control procedureHolly C Miller
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Behav Processes 80:109-14. 2009..Furthermore, we found that dogs would match the direction of screen-push demonstrated by a human and they were equally likely to match the direction in which the screen moved independently while a human was present...- Preference for 50% reinforcement over 75% reinforcement by pigeonsCassandra D Gipson
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Learn Behav 37:289-98. 2009..Such paradoxical choice may account for certain human appetitive risk-taking behavior (e.g., gambling) as well... - Object permanence in dogs: invisible displacement in a rotation taskHolly C Miller
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 16:150-5. 2009..Once the conflict is eliminated, dogs show evidence of object permanence that includes invisibly displaced objects... - A differential-outcomes effect using hedonically nondifferential outcomes with delayed matching to sample by pigeonsHolly C Miller
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Learn Behav 37:161-6. 2009.... - Matching-to-sample by pigeons: the dissociation of comparison choice frequency from the probability of reinforcementThomas R Zentall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, United States
Behav Processes 78:185-90. 2008..Together, these experiments suggest that when the sample is not available, there is a partial dissociation between comparison choice and the probability of reinforcement associated with each of the comparison stimuli... - What do dogs know about hidden objects?Holly C Miller
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Behav Processes 81:439-46. 2009..These results suggest that although a perceptual/conditioning mechanism may be involved for some dogs, it cannot account for the performance of others. It is likely that these other dogs showed true object permanence... - Within-trial contrast: The effect of probability of reinforcement in trainingCassandra D Gipson
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, United States
Behav Processes 82:126-32. 2009..Although the hypothesis that the within-trial contrast effect was constrained by a performance ceiling was not confirmed, we did find a reliable within-trial contrast effect with 100% reinforcement...