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Kenneth Leising

Kenneth Leising, Ph.D.

Professor

817-257-6139 SWR 319

Program Affiliations

Davis CollegePsychology

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
  • Articles & Essays
    • Solorzano-Restrepo, J., Jones, S., Zenny, R., Gillespie, C. & Leising, K. J. (in press). The Effect of Interleaving Identity and Spatial-Change Trials on Cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
    • Nerz, J., Bond, S. R., Pittman, T., Jones, S., & Leising, K. J. (in press). The Effects of Temporal Arrangement and Landmark Stability in a Spatial Occasion Setting Task with Pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
    • Leising, K. J. (2025). The Role of Associative Learning in Sensitization. Learning and Behavior, 53(4), 313-314. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00659-8
    • Leising, K. J., Nerz, J. Solorzano-Restrepo, J., and Bond, S. R. (2025). Are You Studying Occasion Setting? A Review for Inquiring Minds. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 20, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2025.200002
    • Nerz, J., Elliot, C. R., Melo, M., Raab, T., Jones, S., Stahlman, W. D., & Leising, K. J. (2025). Emotion Labeling in Pigeons. Affective Science, 6, 356-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00287-5
    • Leising, K. J., & Stahlman, W. D. (2024). Toward a Selectionist Future in Comparative Cognition. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 19, 37-41. https://doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2024.190020
    • Solórzano-Restrepo, J., & Leising, K. J. (2024). Protection from interference by a retro-cue in a visual working memory task. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 56, 156-163. https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.2024.v56.16
    • Bond, S. R., Nerz, J., Jones, S., Pittman, T., Jones, N., & Leising, K. J. (2023). The effects of feature extinction in dual-response feature-positive discriminations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49(4), 273-288. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000360
    • Leising, K. J., Elliott, C. R., Nerz, J., Magnotti, J., & Wright, A. A. (2023). Properties of Iconic and Visuospatial Working Memory in Pigeons and Humans Using a Location Change-Detection Procedure. Learning & Behavior, 51, 228–245. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00539-z
  • Books
    • Papini, M. R. & Leising, K. J. (2026). Comparative Learning and Cognition. Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition Textbook.
  • Solórzano-Restrepo, J., Randall, A., Vaughn, B., & Leising, K. J. (2025, April). Effects of Sensory Modality of Cueing in a Visual Working Memory Task. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Nerz, J., Cagney, K., Bond, S., & Leising, K. J. (2025, April). The Effects of Differential Outcomes on Acquisition, Extinction, and Reacquisition of a Visual Discrimination in Rats. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Bond, S., Nerz, C., Cagney, K., & Leising, K. J. (2024, November). The Overjustification Effect Does Not Occur with Food as the Extrinsic Reward. The Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. New York City, New York.
  • Nerz, J., Gillespie, C., Cagney, K., Bond, S., Flores, I., & Leising, K. (2024, November). Running Distance Is Not Affected by Alternating Exercise Order. The Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. New York City, New York.
  • Nerz, J., Bond, S., Miranda, A., Gillespie, C., & Leising, K. J. (2023, September). Reinforcer Value Affects the Emergence of the Differential Outcomes Effect in Rats. Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting. Austin, TX.
  • Bond, S. R., Nerz, J., Lasater, M., & Leising, K. J. (Nov, 2023). Voluntary Oral Consumption of Cannabidiol (CBD) in Rats does not Reduce Anxiety-like Behavior. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
  • Jones, S., Lasater, M., Nerz, J., Chuah, J., Jones, N., Bond, S., & Leising,  K. J. (April, 2023). An examination of perceived valence of deterministic outcomes and moral behavior. Poster presented at the 2023 Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention.

Last Updated: August 12, 2026

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