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Alan Silberberg, Ph.D.

Professor

E-mail: asilber@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1709
Office: Asbury building, room 142

Education:

University of Pennsylvania

• Current Research Interests:

• experimental analysis of behavior
• autoshaping
• choice behavior
• microstructural choice behavior
• microstructural analysis of rate
• behavioral economics
• primatology
  

Recent Publications:

Roma, P. G., Silberberg, A., Ruggiero, A. M., & Suomi, S. J. (2006). Capuchin monkeys, inequity aversion and the frustration effect. Journal of Comparative Psychology , 120 , 67-73 .

Silberberg, A., Roma, P. G., Ruggiero, A. M., & Suomi, S. J. (2006). On inequity aversion in non-human primates. Journal of Comparative Psychology , 120 , 76.

Roma, P. G., Silberberg, A., Huntsberry, M. E., Christensen, C. J., Ruggiero, A. M., & Suomi, S. J. (2007). Mark tests for mirror self-recognition in capuchin monkeys ( Cebus apella ) trained to touch marks. American Journal of Primatology, 69 , 989-1000.

Slotnick, B., Sanguino, A., Husband, S., Marquino, G., & Silberberg, A. (2007). Olfaction and olfactory epithelium in mice treated with zinc gluconate. The Laryngoscope , 117 , 743- 749.

Hursh, S. R., & Silberberg, A. (2008) . Economic demand and essential value. Psychological Review, 115, 186-198.

Silberberg, A., Roma, P. G., Huntsberry, M. E., Warren-Boulton, F. R., Sakagami, T., Ruggiero, A. M., & Suomi, S. J. (2008). On loss aversion in capuchin monkeys. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 89, 145-155.

Silberberg, A., Goto, K., Hachiga, Y., & Tanno, T. (2008). Schedule discrimination in a mixed schedule: Implications for models of the variable-ratio, variable-interval rate difference. Behavioural Processes, 78, 10-16 .

Christensen, C. J., Silberberg, A., Hursh, S. R., Huntsberry, M. E., & Riley, A. L. (2008). Essential value of cocaine and food: A test of the exponential model of demand. Psychopharmacology , 198 , 221-229.

Hachiga, Y., Silberberg, A., Parker, S., & Sakagami, T. (2008). Humans ( Homo sapiens ) fail to show inequity aversion in analogue of monkey inequity test. Animal Cognition. DOI 10.1007/s10071-008- 0195-7.

Christensen, C. J., Silberberg, A., Hursh, S. R., Roma, P. G., & Riley, A. L. (2008). Demand for cocaine and food over time. Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior, 91 , 209-216.

Christensen, C. J., Kohut, S. J., Handler, S., Silberberg, A., & Riley, A. L. ( in press ). Demand for food and cocaine in Fischer and Lewis rats. Behavioral Neuroscience.

Tanno, T., Silberberg, A., & Sakagami, T. ( in press ). Single-sample discrimination of different schedules' reinforced interresponse times. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

Silberberg, A., & Kearns, D. ( in press ). Memory for the order of briefly presented numerals in humans as a function of practice. Animal Cognition .

Silberberg, A., Crescimbene, L., Addessi, E., Anderson, J. R., & Visalberghi, E. ( in press ). Does inequity aversion depend on a frustration effect: A test with capuchin monkeys ( Cebus apella ). Animal Cognition .

 

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