Richard W. Thompson

Immobility reactions (fear) of domestic fowl as a function of age and prior experience

Stanley C. Ratner, Richard W. Thompson · Animal Behaviour · 1960 · 109 citations

Domestic Fowl, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Sciences +12

Temporal geographic variation in the lambing season of bighorn sheep

Richard W. Thompson, Jack C. Turner · Canadian Journal of Zoology · 1982 · 58 citations

Engineering, Livestock Production, Agricultural Economics +17

A central cholinergic inhibitory system as a basis for tonic immobility (animal hypnosis) in chickens.

Richard W. Thompson, Joan Piroch, Dave Fallen et al. · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1974 · 49 citations

Animal Physiology, Tonic Immobility, Veterinary Behavioral Medicine +12

Transfer of avoidance learning between normal and functionally decorticate states.

Richard W. Thompson · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1964 · 31 citations

Cognitive Science, Neural Mechanism, Sensory Neuroscience +7

Exploration and activity in the gerbil and rat.

Richard W. Thompson, Louis G. Lippman · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1972 · 30 citations

Behavioral Neuroscience, Physiology, Rodent Ecology +3