Animal Learning and Behavior Lab
Carlos Pinto
Email:carlos.arop@gmail.com
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I completed both my BSc in Psychology (2001-2006) and MSc in Cognitive Sciences (2006-2008) in University of Minho. The specialization in my Bachelor’s degree was on Industrial Psychology and during my Master’s degree I started to learn more about Experimental Psychology and joined this lab. Following obtaining these degrees, I began work as a Research Assistant to Dr. Armando Machado for a little over 2 and a half years. |
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Research interests |
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Currently I am mostly interested in the ability animals have of interpreting the regularities in
their surroundings and create rules that allow them to behave adaptively in different situations. More specifically, I would like to learn
more about the rules animals use to govern their behavior and how these rules are stored in memory. During my Master’s I studied the
choose-short effect and how memories for different durations could relate to each other and how they were
forgotten during a retention interval. In another study, I looked at how learning a new rule (related with responding in
a Fixed Interval schedule) could affect a previously learned rule. In the future I would like to keep studying these issues. |
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Publications |
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Fortes, I., Pinto, C., Machado, A., & Vasconcelos, M. (2018). The paradoxical effect of low reward probabilities in suboptimal choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44(2), 180–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000165 .pdf |
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Pinto, C., Fortes, I., & Machado, A. (2017). Joint stimulus control in a temporal discrimination task. Animal Cognition, 20(6), 1129–1136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-017-1130-6 .pdf |
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Pinto, C., & Machado, A. (2017). Unraveling sources of stimulus control in a temporal discrimination task. Learning & behavior, 45(1), 20-28. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0233-2 .pdf |
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Pinto, C., Fortes, I., Wilson, A. G., & Zentall, T. R. (2016). The relative value of two options for pigeons depends on their context. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 105(1), 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.187 .pdf |
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Pinto, C., & Machado, A. (2015). Coding in pigeons: Multiple-coding versus single-code/default strategies. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 103(3), 472-483. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.153 .pdf |
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Pinto, C., Fortes, I., Jozefowiez, J., & Machado, A. (2012). Interaction of temporal memories in extinction. In P. Guilhardi, M. Menez, & F. López (Eds.), Tendencias en el estudio contemporáneo de la estimación temporal. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. .pdf |
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Pinto, C., & Machado, A. (2011) Short-term Memory for Temporal Intervals: Contrasting Explanations of the Choose-short Effect in Pigeons. Learning and motivation, 42, 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2010.05.001 .pdf |
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