Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2022-01-01 A method for studying reinforcement factors controlling impulsive choice for use in behavioral neuroscience.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  117:363-383. 2022-01-01
2021-03-01 Is Shimp’s (2021) approach really less divisiveJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  115:604-610. 2021-03-01
2021-01-01 Effects of chlordiazepoxide on pausing during rich-to-lean transitions.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  116:3-20. 2021-01-01
2020-04-01 Effects of oxycodone on sensitivity to reinforcement magnitude: Implications for effects of opioids on impulsive and risky choiceBehavioural Pharmacology.  31:221-232.. 2020-04-01
2019-12-01 Transitions from rich-to-lean schedules increase attack in a laboratory model of social aggression in pigeons: I. Fixed-ratio schedulesMexican Journal of Behavior Analysis.  45:500-518. 2019-12-01
2019-12-01 Transitions from rich-to-lean schedules increase attack in a laboratory model of social aggression in pigeons: II. Fixed-interval schedulesMexican Journal of Behavior Analysis.  45:519-546. 2019-12-01
2019-07-01 Assessing functions of stimuli associated with rich-to-lean transitions using a choice procedureJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  112:97-110. 2019-07-01
2017-01-01 Escape from rich-to-lean transitions: Stimulus change and timeoutJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  107:65-84. 2017-01-01
2016-12-01 Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement delay and to reinforcement amount in pigeons: Implications for impulsive choiceExperimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.  24:464-476. 2016-12-01
2016-03-01 Limits to preference and the sensitivity of choice to rate and amount of foodJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  105:322-337. 2016-03-01
2015-01-01 Effects of MDMA, methamphetamine and methylphenidate on repeated acquisition and performance in rats.Psychopharmacology2015-01-01
2015-01-01 Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Effects of morphine on sensitivity to reinforcement amountExplorations.  10:1-20. 2015-01-01
2014-07-01 Concurrent performance as engagement boutsJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  102:102-125. 2014-07-01
2014-05-01 Preference pulses without reinforcersJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  101:317-336. 2014-05-01
2014-05-01 Reconsidering the concept of behavioral mechanisms of drug actionJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  101:422-441. 2014-05-01
2010-01-01 Choice in a variable environment: Effects of d-amphetamine on sensitivity to reinforcement.Behavioural Processes.  460-464. 2010-01-01
2009-01-01 Effects of MDMA, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate on repeated acquisition and performance in rats.Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.  305-311. 2009-01-01
2009-01-01 Effects of d-amphetamine on behavior maintained by signaled and unsignaled delays to reinforcement.Behavioural Processes.  81:264-269. 2009-01-01
2009-01-01 Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent schedules: Effects of d-amphetamine on sensitivity to reinforcement amount.Behavioural Processes.  81:238-243. 2009-01-01
2006-12-01 Chlordiazepoxide and dizocilpine, but not morphine, selectively impair acquisition under a novel repeated-acquisition and performance task in rats.Psychopharmacology.  189:135-43. 2006-12-01
2006-01-01 Identity Matching-to-Sample with Olfactory Stimuli in RatsJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  85:203-221. 2006-01-01
2005-10-01 Chlordiazepoxide interactions with scopolamine and dizocilpine: novel cooperative and antagonistic effects on spatial learning.Behavioral neuroscience.  119:1331-8. 2005-10-01
2003-02-01 Effects of positive GABA(A) modulators on a multiple-component, repeated-acquisition test of spatial learning.Behavioural pharmacology.  14:67-75. 2003-02-01
2003-02-01 Repeated spatial acquisition: effects of NMDA antagonists and morphine.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology.  11:79-90. 2003-02-01
2002-09-01 Navigation in the Morris swim task as a baseline for drug discrimination: a demonstration with morphine.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior.  78:215-23. 2002-09-01

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Full Name

  • Raymond C Pitts