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  1. Reinstatement as renewal produced by associative changes in context.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, March 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  2. Perceptual learning mechanisms with single-stimulus exposure

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    James Byron Nelson

  3. Inhibitory properties of a latent inhibitor after its compound preexposure with several novel stimuli: evidence from human conditioning

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2025, Frontiers

    James Byron Nelson

  4. Extinction induced representational change.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, January 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  5. Are You Studying Occasion Setting? Be Cautious

    Article • Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, January 2025, Comparative Cognition Society

    James Byron Nelson

  6. Perceived stress and renewal: The effects of long-term stress on the renewal effect

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, May 2024, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  7. How simple pre-exposure to a stimulus affects how you learn about it later.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, February 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  8. The effects of stimulus pre-exposure and conditioning on overt visual attention.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  9. Response reduction and stimulus pre-exposure effects in a human conditioning method.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  10. Extinction contexts fail to transfer control: Implications for conditioned inhibition and occasion-setting accounts of renewal.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, October 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  11. Intensity effects in human cue-outcome learning

    Article • Behavioural Processes, January 2020, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  12. Prior extinction increases acquisition context specificity in human predictive learning

    Article • Behavioural Processes, December 2019, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  13. Reversal training facilitates acquisition of new learning in a Morris water maze

    Article • Learning & Behavior, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  14. Conditioned anticipatory outcome searching in humans

    Article • Behavioural Processes, July 2019, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  15. Context dependency as a Function of Prediction Error-Based Attention

    Article • Psicológica Journal, July 2019, De Gruyter

    James Byron Nelson

  16. Perceptual learning after test-stimulus exposure in humans

    Article • Behavioural Processes, May 2019, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  17. Learning to learn in conditioning and extinction in humans

    Article • Behavioural Processes, December 2018, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  18. The effects of extinction-aroused attention on context conditioning

    Article • Learning & Memory, March 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    James Byron Nelson

  19. Recovery of attention with renewal

    Article • Learning & Memory, November 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    James Byron Nelson

  20. Ambiguity produces attention shifts in category learning

    Article • Learning & Memory, March 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr David Luque Ruiz, James Byron Nelson

  21. Contextual control of conditioning is not affected by extinction in a behavioral task with humans

    Article • Learning & Behavior, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  22. Integration of multiple memories in sensory preconditioning

    Article • Behavioural Processes, October 2014, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  23. A Focused Attention Intervention for Preventing the Recovery of Initial Learning

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  24. An easy-to-hard effect after nonreinforced preexposure in a sweetness discrimination

    Article • Learning & Behavior, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  25. Presentation and validation of “The Learning Game,” a tool to study associative learning in humans

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  26. Extinction produces context inhibition and multiple-context extinction reduces response recovery in human predictive learning

    Article • Learning & Behavior, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  27. Changing Emotions

    Article • February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors, James Byron Nelson, Dr Dario Paez

  28. Extinction arouses attention to the context in a behavioral suppression method with humans.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  29. The extinction context enables extinction performance after a change in context

    Article • Behavioural Processes, July 2012, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  30. Concurrent extinction does not render appetitive conditioning context specific

    Article • Learning & Behavior, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  31. Experimental renewal in human participants.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  32. Editorial

    Article • Learning & Behavior, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  33. Contextual control of first- and second-learned excitation and inhibition in equally ambiguous stimuli

    Article • Learning & Behavior, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  34. Flattening generalization gradients, context, and perceptual learning

    Article • Learning & Behavior, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  35. The role of interference produced by conflicting associations in contextual control.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  36. A Context-Specific Latent Inhibition Effect in a Human Conditioned Suppression Task

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, June 2006, SAGE Publications

    James Byron Nelson

  37. The contribution of latent inhibition to reduced generalization after pre-exposure to the test stimulus

    Article • Behavioural Processes, January 2006, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  38. Blocked and test-stimulus exposure effects in perceptual learning re-examined

    Article • Behavioural Processes, April 2004, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  39. Context Specificity of Excitation and Inhibition in Ambiguous Stimuli

    Article • Learning and Motivation, May 2002, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  40. Resolution now! Reply to Riccio, Richardson, and Ebner (1999).

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, March 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson

  41. Stimulus generalization, context change, and forgetting.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, January 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Juan M rosas, James Byron Nelson

  42. The Effects of a Context Switch following Serial and Simultaneous Feature-Negative Discriminations

    Article • Learning and Motivation, February 1997, Elsevier

    James Byron Nelson

  43. Reinstatement after counterconditioning

    Article • Animal Learning & Behavior, December 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    James Byron Nelson

  44. Context-specificity of target versus feature inhibition in a feature-negative discrimination.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 1994, American Psychological Association (APA)

    James Byron Nelson