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Play fighting and the development of the social brain: The rat’s tale
Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis, Jackson R. Ham, et al.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2023) Vol. 145, pp. 105037-105037
Closed Access | Times Cited: 46

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The neurobiology of social play behaviour: Past, present and future
E. J. Marijke Achterberg, Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2023) Vol. 152, pp. 105319-105319
Open Access | Times Cited: 33
Comparing the ontogeny, neurobiology, and function of social play in hamsters and rats
Matthew A. Cooper, J. Alex Grizzell, Conner J. Whitten, et al.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2023) Vol. 147, pp. 105102-105102
Open Access | Times Cited: 24
Animal play and evolution: Seven timely research issues about enigmatic phenomena
Gordon M. Burghardt, Sergio M. Pellis, Jeffrey C. Schank, et al.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2024) Vol. 160, pp. 105617-105617
Closed Access | Times Cited: 13
From Play Date to Stress Fate: Juvenile Social Play Rescues Stress‐Induced Changes in Adult Social Behavior
Conner J. Whitten, Jeffrey R. Kelly, Alex Gillespie, et al.
Developmental Psychobiology (2025) Vol. 67, Iss. 1
Closed Access | Times Cited: 1
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits
Jackson R. Ham, Madeline Szabo, Jessica Annor‐Bediako, et al.
Developmental Psychobiology (2024) Vol. 66, Iss. 2
Open Access | Times Cited: 6
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression
Ivan Norscia, Martin Hecker, Marta Caselli, et al.
Current Zoology (2024) Vol. 70, Iss. 6, pp. 765-779
Open Access | Times Cited: 6
The evolution of social play in songbirds, parrots and cockatoos - emotional or highly complex cognitive behaviour or both?
Gisela Kaplan
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2024) Vol. 161, pp. 105621-105621
Open Access | Times Cited: 6
Neurexin1α knockout in rats causes aberrant social behaviour: relevance for autism and schizophrenia
E. J. Marijke Achterberg, Barbara Biemans, Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren
Psychopharmacology (2024)
Open Access | Times Cited: 5
Play fighting revisited: its design features and how they shape our understanding of its mechanisms and functions
Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis, Jackson R. Ham
Frontiers in Ethology (2024) Vol. 3
Open Access | Times Cited: 5
A review of interspecific social play among nonhuman animals
Heather J.B. Brooks, Gordon M. Burghardt
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2023) Vol. 151, pp. 105232-105232
Closed Access | Times Cited: 11
Opportunities for risk‐taking during play alters cognitive performance and prefrontal inhibitory signalling in rats of both sexes
Ate Bijlsma, Evelien E. Birza, Tara C. Pimentel, et al.
European Journal of Neuroscience (2024) Vol. 59, Iss. 10, pp. 2748-2765
Open Access | Times Cited: 4
Levelling up the Study of Animal Gameplay
Fay E. Clark
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2025) Vol. 169, pp. 106016-106016
Open Access
The enduring search for the nature of play
Gordon M. Burghardt
International Journal of Play (2025), pp. 1-13
Closed Access
Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala
Aidan L. Pham, Ashley E. Marquardt, Kristen R. Montgomery, et al.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)
Open Access
Understanding play from neurobiological, evolutionary, and comparative perspectives
Jeffrey C. Schank, Gordon M. Burghardt, Elisabetta Palagi, et al.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2025), pp. 106100-106100
Closed Access
The Goldilocks Principle: Balancing Familiarity and Novelty in the Selection of Play Partners in Groups of Juvenile Male Rats
Jackson R. Ham, Sergio M. Pellis
Animal Behavior and Cognition (2023) Vol. 10, Iss. 4, pp. 304-328
Open Access | Times Cited: 10
The practicality of practice: A model of the function of play behaviour
Dave E.W. Mallpress, Marek Špinka
Ecology and Evolution (2023) Vol. 13, Iss. 9
Open Access | Times Cited: 9
Play as Occupation: The State of Our Science and a Research Agenda for the Profession
Heather Miller-Kuhaneck, Anita Bundy, Sarah Fabrizi, et al.
American Journal of Occupational Therapy (2024) Vol. 78, Iss. 4
Closed Access | Times Cited: 3
Play partner preferences among groups of unfamiliar juvenile male rats
Jackson R. Ham, Sergio M. Pellis
Scientific Reports (2024) Vol. 14, Iss. 1
Open Access | Times Cited: 3
Juvenile social play predicts docility in Belding’s ground squirrels
James Hurst‐Hopf, Martha P. Monroy Montemayor, Nyla N. Leonardi, et al.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2023) Vol. 77, Iss. 6
Open Access | Times Cited: 7
Prenatal allergic inflammation in rats confers sex-specific alterations to oxytocin and vasopressin innervation in social brain regions
Michaela R. Breach, Habib E. Akouri, Sophia Costantine, et al.
Hormones and Behavior (2023) Vol. 157, pp. 105427-105427
Open Access | Times Cited: 7
Brief and long maternal separation in C57Bl6J mice: behavioral consequences for the dam and the offspring
Cynthia Rombaut, David Roura‐Martínez, Catherine Lépolard, et al.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2023) Vol. 17
Open Access | Times Cited: 6
Shaping the development of complex social behavior
James P. Curley, Frances A. Champagne
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2023) Vol. 1530, Iss. 1, pp. 46-63
Open Access | Times Cited: 5
Social isolation leads to mild social recognition impairment and losses in brain cellularity
Daniel Menezes Guimarães, Bruna Valério‐Gomes, Rodrigo Vianna-Barbosa, et al.
Brain Structure and Function (2023) Vol. 228, Iss. 9, pp. 2051-2066
Closed Access | Times Cited: 4
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Sex Differences in Social Behavior. It’s Complicated!
Sean L. Veney, Heather K. Caldwell
Masterclass in neuroendocrinology (2024), pp. 109-129
Closed Access | Times Cited: 1
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