Fully automated, highly diagnostic behavioral screens for malfunctions in the cognitive mechanisms that enable animals to locate themselves in time and space and remember simple abstract quantities like rates and proportions. Genetic approaches to the neurobiological mechanism of memory. Animal cognition: spatial, temporal and numerical learning and reasoning.
Bayesian Software & Computation
Mice take calculated risks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) doi: 10.1073/pnas.120513110)
Kheifets A. & Gallistel C. R.(2012)Conditional Stimulus Informativeness Governs Conditioned Stimulus—Unconditioned Stimulus Associability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.
Ward, R. D., Gallistel, C. R., Jensen, G., Richards, V. L., Fairhurst, S., & Balsam, P. D. (2012)On rationalism and optimality: Responses to the Miller and Nevin Commentaries. Behavioural Processes, 90, 87-88.
Gallistel, C. R. (2012)Gallistel, C. R. (2012) On the evils of group averaging: Commentary on Nevin's "Resistance to extinction and behavioral momentum". Behavioural Processes, 90, 98-99.
Extinction from a rationalist perspective. Behavioural Processes, 90, 66-88.
Gallistel, C. R. (2012)Gallistel, C. R. (2011) Prelinguistic thought. in Language learning and development, 7, 253-262.
"Response to Donahoe's Review of Memory and the Computational Brain" in Behavior & Philosophy
Gallistel, C. R. (2011)Gallistel, C. R. (2011). Mental magnitudes. Space, Time and Number in the Brain: Searching for the foundations of mathematical thought. S. Dehaene and L. Brannon. New York, Elsevier: 3-12.
Review of Carey’s “The Origin of Concepts” in Lingua. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.08.004
Gallistel, C.R. (2010).Time and Associative Learning. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 5: 1-22.
Balsam, P. D., M. R. Drew, et al. (2010).Gallistel, C. R., King, A. P., Daniel, A. M., Freestone, D., Papchristos, E. B., Balci, F., et al. (2010). Screening for learning and memory mutations: A new approach. Acta Psychologica Sinica 41(1).
The importance of proving the null. Psychological Review. 116(2), 439-453.
Gallistel, C.R. (2009).Balci, F., Freestone, D., & Gallistel, C. R. (2009). Risk assessment in man and mouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U S A, 106(7), 2459-2463.
Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning. Trends in Neurosciences, 32(2), 73-78.
Balsam, P. & Gallistel, C. R. (2009).Balci, F., Allen, B. D., Frank, K., Gibson, J., Gallistel, C. R. & Brunner, D. (2009). Acquisition of timed responses in the peak procedure., Behavioral Processes, 80 , pp. 67-75.
Gallistel, C.R. (2009), The foundational abstractions. in Piattelli-Palmirini, M, Uriagereka, J.. & Salaburu, P. (Eds) Of minds and language: A dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque country. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 58-73
Fully Automated 24/7 Behavioral Screening for Mutations in Targeted Cognitive Mechanisms in the Mouse in Proceedings of Measure Behavior (Maastricht, The Netherlands) , pp. 55-56.
Gallistel, C.R., King. A.P., Daniel, A.M., Papachristos, E.B., Balci, F. (2008).The neural mechanisms that underlie decision making, in P. W. Glimcher, C. F. Camerer, E. Fehr & R. A. Poldrack (Eds.), Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain , pp. 419-424. New York: Elsevier/Academic.
Gallistel, C. R. (2008).The generative basis of natural number concepts, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(6) , pp. 213-218.
Leslie, A. M., Gelman, R., Gallistel, C. R. (2008).Cordes, S., Gallistel, C. R. (2008). Intact interval timing in circadian CLOCK mutants, in Brain Research, 1227 , pp. 120-127.
Balci, F., Papachristos, E.B., Gallistel, C.R., Brunner, D., Gibson, J. & Schumyatsky, G.P. (2008). Interval timing in genetically modified mouse: a simple paradigm. Genes, Brains and Behavior , 7, 373-384
Learning and representation., in R.Menzel (Ed.), Learning theory and behavior Vol. 1 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. (Vol. 1. Learning theory and behavior, pp. 227-242). Oxford: Elsevier.
Gallistel, C.R. (2008)Leslie, A. M., Gelman, R., Gallistel, C. R. (2007). Where Integers Come From, , in Carruthers, P., Laurence, S., Stich, S., (Eds) The Innate Mind, Vol. 3: Foundations and the Future., New York: Oxford University Press, (7), pp. 109-138.
Comment on Machado and di Silva, in American Psychologist, (62) , pp. 682-685.
Gallistel, C. R. (2007).Commentary on Le Corre & Carey, in Cognition, 105(2), pp. 439-445.
Gallistel, C. R. (2007).Cordes, S., King, A.P., & Gallistel, C.R. (2007) Time left in the mouse. Behavioural Processes, 74, pp. 142-151.
Learning Organs. English original of L'apprentissage de matières distinctes exige des organes distincts. In J. Bricmont & J. Franck (Eds) Cahier n° 88: Noam Chomsky. Paris: L'Herne, pp. 181-187
Gallistel, C.R. (2007)Cordes S., Gallistel C.R., Gelman R., & Latham P. (2007). Nonverbal arithmetic in humans: Light from noise, in Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1185-1203.
Gallistel, C.R., King, A.P., Gottlieb, D., Balci, F., Papachristos, E.B., Szalecki, M., Carbone, K.S. (2007) Is matching innate? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 7(2), 161-199.
Matlab Code for Matching Simulations (JEAB, 2007)
Dopamine and reward: Comment on Hernandez et al., in Behavioral Neuroscience, 120(4), pp. 992-994.
Gallistel, C. R. (2006).Papachristos, E. B., & Gallistel, C.R. (2006) Autoshaped Head Poking in the Mouse: A Quantitative Analysis of the Learning Curve., in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,85, pp. 293-308.
Balsam, P.D., Fairhurst, S., & Gallistel, C.R. (2006) Pavlovian contingencies and temporal information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32(3),284-294.
Gallistel, C.R. (2006) The nature of learning and the functional architecture of the brain. In Q. Jing, et al (Eds) Psychological Science Around the World, vol 1. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology. Sussex: Psychology Press. pp. 63-71
Cross-Domain Transfer of Quantitative Discriminations: Is it All a Matter of Proportion? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, pp. 636-642
Balci, F. & Gallistel, C.R. (2006)Deconstructing the law of effect., in Games and Economic Behavior. R 52(2), 410-423
Gallistel, C.R. (2005)C. R. Gallistel, Rochel Gelman (2005) Mathematical Cognition
In K Holyoak & R. Morrison (Eds) The Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning. Cambridge University Press (pp 559-588) 2005
Tutorial on Matlab's Statistics Toolbox. This is the core of my Advanced Statistics Course, which emphasizes familiarity with the different distributions and the use of relative likelihood methods. Zipped folder contains executable Matlab .m file and a .pdf version of same with inserted figures and captions.
Cheng, K., & Gallistel, C.R. (2005) Shape parameters explain data from spatial transformations: Comment on Pearce et al. (2004) and Tomassi & Polli (2004). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(2), pp. 254-259
Gallistel, C. R., Gelman, R., & Cordes, S. (2005). The cultural and evolutionary history of the real numbers, in S. Levinson & P. Jaisson (Eds.), Culture and evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (2004). Language and the origin of numerical concepts, in Science, 306, 441-443.
Gallistel, C. R., Balsam, P. D., & Fairhurst, S. (2004). The learning curve: Implications of a quantitative analysis., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(36), 13124-13131.
Matlab, Excel & Stand-Alone implementations of the Change-Point Algorithm.
Gallistel, C.R., King, A., McDonald, R. (2004) Sources of variability and systematic error in mouse timing behavior, in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30(1), pp. 3-16
Gallistel, C. R. (2002). Conception, Perception, and the Control of Action: Response to Majid, in TICCS, 2002, 6, 504.
Frequency, contingency and the information processing theory of conditioning, in P. Sedelmeir & T. Betsch (Eds.), Frequency processing and cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 153-171.
Gallistel, C. R. (2002).S. Fairhurst, C. R. Gallistel, & J. Gibbon (2003) Temporal landmarks: Proximity prevails, in Animal Cognition, 6(2), pp. 113-120.
Conditioning from an information processing perspective, in Behavioural Processes. 61(3) 1234 1-13
Gallistel, C. R. (2003)Time has Come, in Neuron, Vol. 38, 1-20 April 24, 2003
Gallistel, C. R.Rate Estimation Theory Model Excel Implementation and Instruction. 2003 April 15.
Gallistel, C.R. (2002) The principle of adaptive specialization as it applies to learning and memory, in R.H. Kluwe, G. Lüer, F. Röser (Eds) Principles of learning and memory Berlin: Birkhäuser. pp. 250-280
Variability signatures distinguish verbal from nonverbal counting for both large and small numbers, in Psychological Bulletin and Review, 8, 698-707.
Cordes, S., Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (2002).