Peyton M. Mueller
Psychology · The Ohio State University
Publications
18
Citations
36
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
6
Publishing since 2019
Peyton M. Mueller studies animal learning and decision-making, primarily using pigeons as experimental subjects, to understand how they make choices, learn discrimination tasks, and are affected by factors like distraction, reward timing, and probability. This work falls within comparative and behavioral psychology, using controlled laboratory experiments to reveal general principles of learning that may apply across species. Students interested in experimental behavioral research and animal cognition would find this line of work relevant.
Publication output grew steadily from 2019 through a peak in 2023, with continued activity in 2024, indicating an active and increasingly productive research program over the past decade.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- What makes the ephemeral reward task so difficult?
Journal of comparative psychology · 2024
- Conspecific presence reduces pigeons’ suboptimal choice
Learning and Motivation · 2024
- 1-Back reinforcement symbolic-matching by humans: How do they learn it?
Learning & Behavior · 2023
- “Distractor” effects in delay discounting of probability by pigeons
Animal Cognition · 2023
- Increasing trial discriminability in the ephemeral reward task does not improve optimal choice in pigeons (Columba livia)
Learning and Motivation · 2023
- What enables “distraction” to reduce delay discounting for pigeons (Columba livia).
Journal of comparative psychology · 2023
- Pigeon’s choice depends primarily on the value of the signal for the outcome rather than its frequency or contrast.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition · 2022
- Pigeons learn two matching tasks, two nonmatching tasks, or one of each
Learning & Behavior · 2022
- Flexible learning of matching and mismatching by pigeons
Behavioural Processes · 2022
- Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually
Behavioural Processes · 2022
- 1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?
Behavioural Processes · 2021
- DISTRACTORS AS A TOOL TO INCREASE “SELF-CONTROL” IN PIGEONS (COLUMBA LIVIA)
UKnowledge (University of Kentucky) · 2021
- Flexible conditional discrimination learning: Pigeons can learn to select the correct comparison stimulus, reject the incorrect comparison, or both.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition · 2021
- Pigeons’ midsession reversal: Greater magnitude of reinforcement on the first half of the session leads to improved accuracy
Learning & Behavior · 2020
- Effects of Perceived Audiences on Discrimination Learning in Pigeons ( Columba livia )
2019
- Behavioural Processes×3
- Learning & Behavior×3
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition×2
- Journal of comparative psychology×2
- Learning and Motivation×2
- Gary A. Lucas
Psychology · Indiana University
- Ralph Gardner
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- David Ray G. Miranda
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Hannah Kassab
Psychology · Indiana University
- Sheila R. Alber‐Morgan
Psychology · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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