| The playful brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience S Pellis, V Pellis Simon and Schuster, 2013 | 606 | 2013 |
| The structure of skilled forelimb reaching in the rat: a proximally driven movement with a single distal rotatory component IQ Whishaw, SM Pellis Behavioural brain research 41 (1), 49-59, 1990 | 478 | 1990 |
| Play‐fighting differs from serious fighting in both target of attack and tactics of fighting in the laboratory rat Rattus norvegicus SM Pellis, VC Pellis Aggressive behavior 13 (4), 227-242, 1987 | 392 | 1987 |
| The impairments in reaching and the movements of compensation in rats with motor cortex lesions: an endpoint, videorecording, and movement notation analysis IQ Whishaw, SM Pellis, BP Gorny, VC Pellis Behavioural brain research 42 (1), 77-91, 1991 | 342 | 1991 |
| Rough-and-tumble play and the development of the social brain SM Pellis, VC Pellis Current directions in psychological science 16 (2), 95-98, 2007 | 340 | 2007 |
| Proximal and distal impairments in rat forelimb use in reaching follow unilateral pyramidal tract lesions IQ Whishaw, SM Pellis, B Gorny, B Kolb, W Tetzlaff Behavioural brain research 56 (1), 59-76, 1993 | 315 | 1993 |
| Differential rates of attack, defense, and counterattack during the developmental decrease in play fighting by male and female rats SM Pellis, VC Pellis Developmental Psychobiology: The Journal of the International Society for …, 1990 | 314 | 1990 |
| Multiple differences in the play fighting of male and female rats. Implications for the causes and functions of play SM Pellis, EF Field, LK Smith, VC Pellis Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 21 (1), 105-120, 1997 | 306 | 1997 |
| Sex differences: Summarizing more than a century of scientific research L Ellis, S Hershberger, E Field, S Wersinger, S Pellis, D Geary, C Palmer, ... Psychology Press, 2013 | 292 | 2013 |
| The Influence of Phylogeny on the Social Behaviour of Macaques (Primates: Cercopithecidae, genus Macaca) B Thierry, AN Iwaniuk, SM Pellis Ethology 106 (8), 713-728, 2000 | 291 | 2000 |
| The function of play in the development of the social brain. SM Pellis, VC Pellis, HC Bell American Journal of play 2 (3), 278-296, 2010 | 283 | 2010 |
| Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices HC Bell, SM Pellis, B Kolb Behavioural brain research 207 (1), 7-13, 2010 | 279 | 2010 |
| Play fighting of rats in comparative perspective: a schema for neurobehavioral analyses SM Pellis, VC Pellis Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 23 (1), 87-101, 1998 | 271 | 1998 |
| Impact of adolescent social experiences on behavior and neural circuits implicated in mental illnesses AR Burke, CM McCormick, SM Pellis, JL Lukkes Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 76, 280-300, 2017 | 247 | 2017 |
| Skilled reaching in rats and humans: evidence for parallel development or homology IQ Whishaw, SM Pellis, BP Gorny Behavioural brain research 47 (1), 59-70, 1992 | 240 | 1992 |
| The role of the cortex in play fighting by rats: Developmental and evolutionary implications SM Pellis, VC Pellis, IQ Whishaw Brain, behavior and evolution 39 (5), 270-284, 1992 | 221 | 1992 |
| On knowing it's only play: the role of play signals in play fighting SM Pellis, VC Pellis Aggression and violent behavior 1 (3), 249-268, 1996 | 218 | 1996 |
| Vestibular information is required for dead reckoning in the rat DG Wallace, DJ Hines, SM Pellis, IQ Whishaw Journal of Neuroscience 22 (22), 10009-10017, 2002 | 215 | 2002 |
| Rough‐and‐tumble play as a window on animal communication E Palagi, GM Burghardt, B Smuts, G Cordoni, S Dall'Olio, HN Fouts, ... Biological Reviews 91 (2), 311-327, 2016 | 210 | 2016 |
| What is play fighting and what is it good for? SM Pellis, VC Pellis Learning & behavior 45, 355-366, 2017 | 181 | 2017 |
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