
Kenneth Leising, Ph.D.
k.j.leising817-257-6139SWR 319
Program Affiliations
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
- 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.
- Papini, M. R. & Leising, K. J. (2026). Comparative Learning and Cognition. Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition Textbook.
- 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
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: February 26, 2026