Representing tools: how two non-human primate species distinguish between the functionally relevant and irrelevant features of a tool.

abstract：:Mechanisms underlying gesture acquisition in primates are largely unstudied, yet heavily debated. While some studies suggest that gestural repertoires are largely innate, others emphasize that gestures emerge and are shaped in social interactions with other conspecifics. There is agreement, however, regarding the negl...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Liebal K,Schneider C,Errson-Lembeck M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animal species use a variety of cognitive strategies to locate food resources. One strategy is to make inferences by exclusion, i.e., perceiving the absence of reward as a cue that another location should be investigated. The use of such advanced cognitive strategies may be more prominent in species that are know...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Petit O,Dufour V,Herrenschmidt M,De Marco A,Sterck EH,Call J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trap-tube problem is used to assess whether an individual is able to foresee the outcome of its actions. To solve the task, an animal must use a tool to push a piece of food out of a tube, which has a trap along its length. An animal may learn to avoid the trap through a rule based on associative processes, e.g. u...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tebbich S,Seed AM,Emery NJ,Clayton NS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined attentional biases for social and non-social emotional stimuli in young adult men and compared the results to those of male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) previously tested in a similar dot-probe task (King et al. in Psychoneuroendocrinology 37(3):396-409, 2012). Recognition memory for these stimuli was a...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lacreuse A,Schatz K,Strazzullo S,King HM,Ready R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of the human language faculty is the use of syntactic rules. The natural vocalizations of animals are syntactically simple, but several studies indicate that animals can detect and discriminate more complex structures in acoustic stimuli. However, how they discriminate such structures is often not clear. Us...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： van Heijningen CA,Chen J,van Laatum I,van der Hulst B,ten Cate C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following passive disorientation, Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) learned to search for a hidden food reward located in one corner of a rectangular-shaped enclosure that contained either identical or distinct features in each corner. Identical features allowed for explicit learning of geometric cues, wherea...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Reichert JF,Kelly DM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild animals face the challenge of locating feeding sites distributed across broad spatial and temporal scales. Spatial memory allows animals to find a goal, such as a productive feeding patch, even when there are no goal-specific sensory cues available. Because there is little experimental information on learning and...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lührs ML,Dammhahn M,Kappeler PM,Fichtel C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adult male orangutan (Pongo abelii) was presented with a series of delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) tasks in which he was to match images based on (a) the number of individual animals depicted in the photograph (from 1 to 4), (b) the number of abstract shapes presented in the stimulus (from 1 to 4), or (c) the num...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Vonk J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman animals demonstrate a number of impressive quantitative skills such as counting sets of items, comparing sets on the basis of the number of items or amount of material, and even responding to simple arithmetic manipulations. In this experiment, capuchin monkeys were presented with a computerized task designed...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Beran MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many species, males and females have different reproductive roles and/or differ in their ecological niche. Since in these cases the two sexes often face different cognitive challenges, selection may promote some degree of cognitive differentiation, an issue that has received relatively little attention so far. We i...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lucon-Xiccato T,Bisazza A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By distinguishing the attentional cues of their mates, animals can learn what part of their environment is of potential interest. However, recognizing the attentional states of others through auditory perception appears to be difficult, since these states are generally not accompanied by ostensive signals liable to re...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Costes-Thiré M,Levé M,Uhlrich P,De Marco A,Thierry B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When trained in a rectangular arena, some research has suggested that rats are guided by local features rather than overall boundary geometry. We explored this hypothesis using the terrestrial toad, Rhinella arenarum, as a comparative contrast. In two experiments, toads were trained to find a water-reward goal locatio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sotelo MI,Alcalá JA,Bingman VP,Muzio RN

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orienting responses (ORs) are whole-organism reflexes that are elicited by innocuous stimuli, and which decrease in magnitude after stimulus repetition. ORs represent relatively simple responses that can be used to study attentional processes, and are modulated by the organism's state, including arousal and activation...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： do Nascimento BG,Oliveira HSTOE,Silva HTL,de Siqueira-Silva DH,Lima-Maximino M,Maximino C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pictorial representations of three-dimensional objects are often used to investigate animal cognitive abilities; however, investigators rarely evaluate whether the animals conceptualize the two-dimensional image as the object it is intended to represent. We tested for picture recognition in lion-tailed macaques by pre...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Judge PG,Kurdziel LB,Wright RM,Bohrman JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic 3-D virtual environment was constructed for humans as an open-field analogue of Blaisdell and Cook's (2005) pigeon foraging task to determine if humans, like pigeons, were capable of integrating separate spatial maps. Participants used keyboard keys and a mouse to search for a hidden goal in a 4x4 grid of ra...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sturz BR,Bodily KD,Katz JS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous conditioning experiments training domestic chickens to magnetic directions, a brown strain solved the task, whereas a white strain seemed unable to do so (Freire et al. Anim Cogn 11:547-552, 2008). To test whether this was possibly caused by loss of magnetic compass orientation in the white chickens, we an...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Denzau S,Niessner C,Wiltschko R,Wiltschko W

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All primates can recognize faces and do so by analyzing the subtle variation that exists between faces. Through a series of three experiments, we attempted to clarify the nature of second-order information processing in nonhuman primates. Experiment one showed that both chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and rhesus monkeys...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Taubert J,Parr LA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerosity illusions emerge when the stimuli in one set are overestimated or underestimated relative to the number (or quantity) of stimuli in another set. In the case of multi-item arrays, individual items that form a better Gestalt are more readily grouped, leading to overestimation by human adults and children. As ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Parrish AE,Beran MJ,Agrillo C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence for different tool kits, proposed to be based upon culture-like transmission, have been observed across different chimpanzee communities across Western Africa. In light of these findings, the reported failures by seven captive juvenile chimpanzees tested with 27 tool use tasks (Povinelli 2000) seem eni...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Furlong EE,Boose KJ,Boysen ST

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquiring information about stimuli that predict danger, through either direct experience or inference from a social context, is crucial for individuals' ability to generate appropriate behaviors in response to threats. Utilizing a modified demonstrator-observer paradigm (fear conditioning by proxy) that allows for fr...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jones CE,Monfils MH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates, and rays) have been hypothesized to use the geomagnetic field as a cue for orienting and navigating across a wide range of spatial scales. Magnetoreception has been demonstrated in many invertebrate and vertebrate taxa, including elasmobranchs, but this sensory modality and the cog...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Newton KC,Kajiura SM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like humans, Old World monkeys are known to use configural face processing to distinguish among individuals. The ability to recognize an individual through the perception of subtle differences in the configuration of facial features plays an important role in social cognition. To test this ability in New World monkeys...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Nakata R,Osada Y

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that Carolina chickadees and tufted titmice use a predator's head orientation to determine risk, taking fewer seeds from a feeder if an avian predator model's head is facing the feeder while ignoring the head orientation. In addition to head orientation, eyes are a cue of predator risk. In ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kyle SC

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Locating food and refuge is essential for an animal's survival. However, little is known how mammals navigate under natural conditions and cope with given environmental constraints. In a series of six experiments, I investigated landmark-based navigation in free-ranging Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Vlasak AN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research with Rooks has demonstrated impressive tool-using abilities in captivity despite this species' classification as a non-tool-user in the wild. Here, we explored whether another non-tool-using corvid, the Eurasian Jay, would be capable of similar feats and investigated the relative contributions of causa...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Cheke LG,Bird CD,Clayton NS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateralization represents a key property of many behavioural traits, with the right and left sides of the brain providing different and integrative functions. Common ecological contexts where lateralization can be observed are foraging and predatory ones, where both visual and auditory lateralization may provide advan...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pellitteri-Rosa D,Lazić M,Gazzola A,Vallortigara G

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish is an ideal vertebrate model for neurobehavioral studies with translational relevance to humans. Many aspects of sleep have been studied, but we still do not understand how and why sleep deprivation alters behavioral and physiological processes. A number of hypotheses suggest its role in memory consolida...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pinheiro-da-Silva J,Silva PF,Nogueira MB,Luchiari AC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently much debate about the nature of social learning in chimpanzees. The main question is whether they can copy others' actions, as opposed to reproducing the environmental effects of these actions using their own preexisting behavioral strategies. In the current study, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Call J,Carpenter M,Tomasello M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether cats have a cross-modal representation of humans, using a cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm originally used with dogs by Adachi et al. (Anim Cogn 10:17-21, 2007). We compared cats living in houses and in cat cafés to assess the potential effect of postnatal experience. Cats were presented w...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takagi S,Arahori M,Chijiiwa H,Saito A,Kuroshima H,Fujita K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An overview of mechanistic and functional accounts of stimulus generalisation is given. Mechanistic accounts rely on the process of spreading activation across units representing stimuli. Different models implement the spread in different ways, ranging from diffusion to connectionist networks. A functional account pro...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Cheng K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00