Nonlinear time perception.

abstract：:Foraging in a variable environment presents a classic problem of decision making with incomplete information. Animals must track the changing environment, remember the best options and make choices accordingly. While several experimental studies have explored the idea that sampling behavior reflects the amount of envi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dunlap AS,Stephens DW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that a relatively small number of perceptual skills underlie human perception of music and speech. Humans and songbirds share a number of features in the development of their auditory communication systems. These similarities invite comparisons between species in their auditory perceptual skills. Here, we s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weisman R,Hoeschele M,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cooperation in groups that are allowed to communicate (engage in "cheap talk") has been attributed to reputation-building and to cultural norms or culturally normal behavior. We tested these two theories by exposing groups of undergraduates to a public-goods social dilemma. Five groups were permitted to comm...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Baum WM,Paciotti B,Richerson P,Lubell M,McElreath R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background matching is an important way to camouflage and is widespread among animals. In the field, however, few studies have addressed background matching, and there has been no reported camouflage efficiency in freshwater turtles. Background matching and camouflage efficiency of the four-eyed turtle, Sacalia quadri...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Xiao F,Yang C,Shi H,Wang J,Sun L,Lin L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated in 5- and 8-year-olds, as well as in adults, the effect of verbal counting on temporal discrimination behavior in a generalization task with two duration ranges in order to test the scalar timing property. The results showed that counting improved temporal sensitivity in all age groups, ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Clément A,Droit-Volet S

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well documented that testosterone (T) is an important mediator in the regulation of behaviour in male vertebrates, its functional significance in females is less understood. Experimentally increased T in adult female birds has been found to have both advantageous and detrimental effects on behaviour and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： López-Rull I,Gil D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic mild stress (CMS) is a widely accepted animal model relevant to depression that among other consequences, is chiefly known to induce anhedonia, often assessed as decreased preference for sucrose solution. CMS is also known to affect cognition, particularly memory tasks. In this study we have employed the multi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Raya J,Girardi CEN,Esumi LA,Ferreira LBT,Hipólide DC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a shared recognition that the design of the human mind and the design of human culture are tightly linked, researchers in the evolutionary social sciences tend to specialize in understanding one at the expense of the other. The disciplinary boundaries roughly correspond to research traditions that focus more o...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wertz AE,Moya C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life cycle of commercially used molluscicidal rhabditid nematodes Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita and entomopathogenic steinernematid nematodes is similar: infective stages carry symbiotic bacteria, which kill their host. Nematodes complete their life cycle feeding on the proliferating symbiont and the host tissue. ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Foltan P,Puza V

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte Carlo simulations were performed to analyze the degree to which two-, three- and four-step learning histories of losses and gains correlated with escalation and persistence in extended extinction (continuous loss) conditions. Simulated learning histories were randomly generated at varying lengths and composition...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gilroy SP,Hantula DA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animal species hoard food by carrying it to their home area. In this experiment we evaluated the interaction between persistent (formalin) pain and food-hoarding behaviour. A food-hoarding apparatus, consisting of a home cage connected with an alley at the end of which were placed food pellets, was used to test (...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Aloisi AM,Carli G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic of a series of responses for four pigeons is analyzed using a discrete fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a measure of behavior's predictability. FFTs of moment-to-moment response rates reliably exhibited a continuous distribution for three of the four birds, with most of the power falling in the low frequen...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Horner JM

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the shape of the electric pulses and their rhythm of emission serve in communication in weakly-electric mormyrid fish. Because the pulses emitted by a given individual show very little variability, whereas the rhythm of emission is highly variable, the mormyrids electric emission can be considered to be the repet...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Teyssedre C,Serrier J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel delayed conditional discrimination procedure was used successfully to investigate some factors affecting pigeons' tracking of visual stimuli. Trials began with the brief illumination of one of the keys (randomly selected) from the left- or right-hand column of a three by three matrix of pecking keys. Then the ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wilkie DM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicks were trained to peck on a small coloured (red or green) box for food reinforcement. They were then presented with one box identical to that used during training (familiar) and one of a different colour (unfamiliar). Food reinforcement was delivered for pecking either box, and the right-left position of the two ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Regolin L,Vallortigara G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding experiences with low-quality foods can be improved when these foods are ingested in close temporal association with foods of higher nutritional quality. However, preference for low-quality foods in nature seems to be rather insensitive to past positive experiences and more related to their intrinsic nutritiona...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Catanese F,Distel RA,Fernández P,Villalba JJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the same set of individuals are placed in different social contexts, some groups members often experience a change in dominance status. We examined the context-dependence of social status using a group fusion protocol in male green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri). Six individuals were matched for size and se...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Earley RL,Dugatkin LA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individualistic voices are important for establishing personalized relationships among individuals. In young animals, individual vocal identity is affected by permanent changes of the acoustics due to the growth of their vocal apparatus. Different acoustic variables change uncoordinatedly, so vocal individuality shoul...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lapshina EN,Volodin IA,Volodina EV,Frey R,Efremova KO,Soldatova NV

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virgin female Microtus ochrogaster living in family groups were reproductively activated by twelve 1-hr exposures over a 3-day period to unrelated sexually experienced males. Reproductive activation among virgin females receiving six or eight exposures over a 2- or 3-day period did not differ significantly from that o...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hofmann JE,Getz LL

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greater rates of intermittent reinforcement in the presence of discriminative stimuli generally produce greater resistance to extinction, consistent with predictions of behavioral momentum theory. Other studies reveal more rapid extinction with higher rates of reinforcers - the partial reinforcement extinction effect....

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bai JYH,Podlesnik CA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning in conditioning protocols has long been thought to depend on temporal contiguity between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus. This conceptualization has led to a preponderance of associative models of conditioning. We suggest that trial-based associative models that posit contiguity as the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ward RD,Gallistel CR,Balsam PD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In time-place learning (TPL) paradigms animals are thought to form tripartite memory codes consisting of the spatiotemporal characteristics of biologically significant events. In Phase I, rats were trained on a modified TPL task in which either the spatial or temporal component was constant, while the other component ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Thorpe CM,Hallett D,Wilkie DM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Carnivora, play behaviour is usually made up of motor patterns characteristic of predatory, agonistic and courtship behaviour. Domestic dogs are unusual in that play is routinely performed by adults, both socially, with conspecifics and with humans, and also asocially, with objects. This enhanced playfulness...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bradshaw JW,Pullen AJ,Rooney NJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateralisation, the different use of one or other side or appendix of the body, is basically determined by brain asymmetry which, in turn, is likely to be due to adaptive reasons. Several studies have been carried out on birds in general. However, birds of prey in particular, although they are very good candidates, ha...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Csermely D

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Live trapping is an essential element of field ecological studies. However, the act of trapping provides two types of conditional benefits (food from the bait when hungry, and refuge from a predator when threatened) against one type of drawback (confinement). Our understanding of how animals assess the two benefits ag...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hernández MC,Navarro-Castilla Á,Planillo A,Sánchez-González B,Barja I

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms exhibit diverse anti-predator tactics, influenced by genetics and prior experience. In ectothermic taxa, offspring phenotypes are often sensitive to developmental temperatures. If the effectiveness of alternative anti-predator responses depends on thermally sensitive traits, then the temperatures experi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hagman M,Löwenborg K,Shine R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do young children understand the numerical value of empty sets prior to developing a concept of symbolic zero? Are empty sets represented as mental magnitudes? In order to investigate these questions, we tested 4-year old children and adults with a numerical ordering task in which the goal was to select two stimuli in...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Merritt DJ,Brannon EM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the modification and use of a new tool type in the woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida). This species is known to habitually use twigs or cactus spines to extract arthropods out of tree holes. We observed an adult and a juvenile bird using several barbed twigs from introduced blackberry bushes (Rubus...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sabine T,Irmgard T,Erica C,Sophia S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of the orientation of the wood-cricket, Nemobius sylvestris, was studied experimentally in a variety of biotopes. In each experimental situation, the straightness of the routes taken by crickets improves with age. These results demonstrate that, depending on the variety of the constraints within each livi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Beugnon G,Mieulet F,Campan R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sometimes the nests of the paper wasp Polistes dominulus are parasitized by the obligate social parasite Polistes sulcifer. It is not known how, in the spring, this parasite searches for established nests of its host species. This study investigates the capacity to detect the host nest by olfactory cues alone. In labo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cervo R,Bertocci F,Turillazzi S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00