Armando Machado

Armando Machado
Integrated Member
Cognition Team

Armando Machado’s research focuses on the senses of time and number in animals, in how they discriminate the duration of events and the numerosity of stimuli. In most of his studies, he contrasts the results of laboratory experiments, mostly with pigeons, with the predictions of simple mathematical models of temporal and numerical learning. 

Main 5 publications

Machado, A., Carvalho, M. P., & Vasconcelos, M. (2023). Midsession reversal task with starlings: A quantitative test of the timing hypothesis. Behavioural Processes, 208,. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104862
Machado, A., de Carvalho, M., & Vasconcelos, M. (2022). Time to Contrast Models of Timing: The Structure of Temporal Memory. Behavioral Neuroscience, 136, 404-417. doi: 10.1037/bne0000521
Machado, A., Malheiro, M. T., & Erlhagen, W. (2009). Learning to time: a perspective. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 92, 423–458. doi:10.1901/jeab.2009.92-423
Machado, A. (1997). Learning the temporal dynamics of behavior. Psychological Review, 104, 241-265. doi:10.1037/0033-295x.104.2.241
Lourenço, O., & Machado, A. (1996). In defense of Piaget’s theory: A reply to ten common criticisms. Psychological Review, 103, 143-164. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.103.1.143