Abram Amsel

7.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

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Abram Amsel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Abram Amsel has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 33 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Abram Amsel's work include Behavioral and Psychological Studies (29 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (29 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (24 papers). Abram Amsel is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral and Psychological Studies (29 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (29 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (24 papers). Abram Amsel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Abram Amsel's co-authors include Paul L. Greene, Jaime L. Diaz‐Granados, Michael E. Rashotte, Tim Wigal, Paul T. P. Wong, Gerald M. Edelman, H. Wayne Ludvigson, Mauricio R. Papini, Richard Letz and Dan Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Abram Amsel

140 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The role of frustrative nonreward in noncontinuous reward situations.

1958 1.1k citations Abram Amsel Psychological Bulletin profile →
Frustrative nonreward in partial reinforcement and discrimination learning: Some recent history and a theoretical extension.

1962 723 citations Abram Amsel profile →
Motivational properties of frustration: I. Effect on a running response of the addition of frustration to the motivational complex.

1952 347 citations Abram Amsel et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abram Amsel United States	35	2.0k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	732	144	5.4k
John L. Falk United States	28	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.8×	1.4k 1.3×	614 0.8×	131	6.5k
Byron A. Campbell United States	42	3.1k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	2.6k 1.9×	1.9k 1.8×	1.7k 2.3×	143	7.6k
Neal E. Miller United States	46	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	512 0.7×	154	7.2k
William W. Beatty United States	55	3.0k 1.5×	660 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.8×	196	8.9k
Howard S. Hoffman United States	32	2.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	695 0.6×	301 0.4×	139	5.9k
Harry F. Harlow United States	45	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	727 0.5×	4.1k 3.8×	821 1.1×	172	8.8k
Leon J. Kamin United States	29	2.6k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	966 0.9×	619 0.8×	76	5.7k
Marian C. Diamond United States	37	2.7k 1.4×	308 0.2×	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	970 1.3×	82	6.1k
Travis Thompson United States	38	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	574 0.5×	142 0.2×	135	4.3k
Victor H. Denenberg United States	53	3.0k 1.5×	753 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	4.2k 3.9×	2.9k 4.0×	286	11.1k

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Nixon, Kimberly, Peter Hughes, Abram Amsel, & Steven W. Leslie. (2004). NMDA Receptor Subunit Expression After Combined Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Ethanol. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 28(1). 105–112. 35 indexed citations

Nixon, Kimberly, Peter Hughes, Abram Amsel, & Steven W. Leslie. (2002). NMDA receptor subunit expression following early postnatal exposure to ethanol. Developmental Brain Research. 139(2). 295–299. 22 indexed citations

Hu, Dan, Grace S. Griesbach, & Abram Amsel. (1997). Development of vicarious trial-and-error behavior in odor discrimination learning in the rat: relation to hippocampal function?. Behavioural Brain Research. 86(1). 67–70. 13 indexed citations

Diaz‐Granados, Jaime L., Paul L. Greene, & Abram Amsel. (1994). Selective activity enhancement and persistence in weanling rats after hippocampal X-irradiation in infancy: Possible relevance for ADHD. Behavioral and Neural Biology. 61(3). 251–259. 31 indexed citations

Amsel, Abram. (1993). Behaviorism from the standpoint of a neobehaviorist. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 19(3). 25–37. 1 indexed citations

Lobaugh, Nancy J., et al.. (1993). Age-dependent effects of hippocampal muscarinic receptor blockade on memory-based learning in the developing rat. Behavioural Brain Research. 53(1-2). 119–125. 6 indexed citations

Amsel, Abram. (1993). Hippocampal function in the rat: Cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error?. Hippocampus. 3(3). 251–256. 48 indexed citations

Diaz‐Granados, Jaime L., Paul L. Greene, & Abram Amsel. (1993). Mitigating effects of combined prenatal and postnatal exposure to ethanol on learned persistence in the weanling rat: A replication under high-peak conditions.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 107(6). 1059–1066. 15 indexed citations

Greene, Paul L., Jaime L. Diaz‐Granados, & Abram Amsel. (1992). Blood ethanol concentration from early postnatal exposure: Effects on memory-based learning and hippocampal neuroanatomy in infant and adult rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 106(1). 51–61. 58 indexed citations

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Diaz‐Granados, Jaime L., Paul L. Greene, & Abram Amsel. (1992). Memory-based learning in preweanling and adult rats after infantile x-irradiation-induced hippocampal granule cell hypoplasia.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 106(6). 940–946. 18 indexed citations

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Amsel, Abram. (1992). B. F. Skinner and the cognitive revolution. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 23(2). 67–70. 3 indexed citations

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Amsel, Abram. (1992). Frustration theory: Many years later.. Psychological Bulletin. 112(3). 396–399. 55 indexed citations

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Amsel, Abram. (1992). Confessions of a neobehaviorist. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 27(4). 336–346. 4 indexed citations

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Wigal, Tim & Abram Amsel. (1990). Behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of prenatal, postnatal, or combined exposure to ethanol in weanling rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 104(1). 116–126. 60 indexed citations

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Wigal, S.B., Abram Amsel, & Richard E. Wilcox. (1990). Fetal ethanol exposure diminishes hippocampal β-adrenergic receptor density while sparing muscarinic receptors during development. Developmental Brain Research. 55(2). 161–169. 22 indexed citations

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Wigal, Tim, Paul L. Greene, & Abram Amsel. (1988). Effects on the partial reinforcement extinction effect and on physical and reflex development of short-term in utero exposure to ethanol at different periods of gestation.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 102(1). 51–53. 12 indexed citations

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Hull, Clark L., Abram Amsel, & Michael E. Rashotte. (1984). Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior: Clark L. Hull's Theoretical Papers, with Commentary. Columbia University Press eBooks. 13(2). 46 indexed citations

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Krantz, David S., et al.. (1975). Effects of inescapable shock in the rat: Learned helplessness or response competition. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 6(1). 96–98. 1 indexed citations

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Kimmel, H. D. & Abram Amsel. (1971). Experimental psychopathology : recent research and theory. Academic Press eBooks. 59 indexed citations

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Amsel, Abram, et al.. (1957). Motivational properties of frustration: III. Relation of frustration effect to antedating goal factors.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 53(2). 126–131. 48 indexed citations

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