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Kenneth Leising, Ph.D.
Professor
k.j.leising817-257-6139SWR 319
Program Affiliations
Education
BS, Psychology, Texas Christian University
MA, Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D., Psychology - Learning and Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles
Areas of Focus
- Animal learning and behavior
- Comparative cognition
- Working memory
- Cleland, L. M., Ruprecht, C. M., Lee, R. V., & Leising, K. J. (in press). The Influence of Landmark Stability on Control by Occasion Setters. Behavioural Processes.
- Leising, K. J., Wong, J., *Ruprecht, C. M., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2015). Blocking between landmarks during 2-D (touchscreen) and 3-D (ARENA) search tasks with pigeons. Learning & Behavior, 42(4), 357-364.
- Leising, K. J., **Hall, J. S., *Wolf, J. E., & *Ruprecht, C. M. (2015). Occasion setting during a spatial-search task with pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 41(2), 163-78.
- *Ruprecht, C. M., *Wolf, J. E., **Quintana, N., & Leising, K. J. (2014). Feature-positive discriminations during a spatial-search task with humans. Learning & Behavior, 42, 215-230.
- Leising, K. J., *Ruprecht, C. R., & Stahlman, W. D. (2014). Modulation of variation by response-reward spatial proximity. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 27(2), 326-337.
- Leising, K.J., L.M. Cleland*, Malone, N.**, Lee, R.**, Taylor, J.*, Wolf, J.*, 2016, The effect of increasing number of items in a location change-detection task with pigeons and humans, 57th Annual International of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
- Leising, K.J., H. Wright**, & L.M. Cleland, 2016, A temporal gap and visual mask do not disrupt spatial occasion setting, Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society, Boston, MA.
- Wolf, J.E.*, L.M. Cleland*, & K.J. Leising, 2016, The effects of stimulus-response compatibility on spatial occasion setting, 23nd Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
- Cleland, L.M.*, C.M. Ruprecht, H. Wright**, & K.J. Leising, 2016, Spatial occasion setting following reassignment training in a landmark-based touchscreen task with humans, 23nd Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
- Wolf, J.E*, J. Magnotti, J. Taylor*, R. Lee**, & K.J. Leising, 2015, Spatial working memory compared in pigeons and humans, Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
- Leising, K.J., N. Quintana**, J. Hall**, J.E. Wolf*, and C.M. Ruprecht*, 2013, A Spatial-Search Task for Investigating Conditional Relations with Pigeons and Humans. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Toronto, Canada.
Last Updated: November 19, 2024