Effect of short-term prefeeding and body weight on wheel running and responding reinforced by the opportunity to run in a wheel.

abstract：:Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the function of alloparental behavior in cooperatively breeding species. We examined whether alloparental experience as juveniles enhanced later parental care and reproductive success in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), a cooperatively breeding rodent. Juveniles...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stone AI,Mathieu D,Griffin L,Bales KL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being motivated means exerting effort toward a goal. The 'law of least work' emphasizes a preference for exerting relatively less effort. The law crosses boundaries among species and between physical and mental work. Organisms should be highly sensitive to shifts in effort-reward balance (ERB) in order to make optimal...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Knauss ZT,Filipovic M,Smith KA,Queener MM,Lubera JA,Bolden-Hall NM,Smith JP,Goldsmith RS,Bischoff JE,Miller MK,Cromwell HC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some models of performance assume that behavior depends on environmental quantities (for example, rates of reinforcement) that are defined over intervals of fixed duration. Although such window models may serve as useful approximations, they are incompatible with well-known properties of behavior (for instance, sensit...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tonneau F

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Aposematic prey advertise their toxicity to predators using conspicuous warning signals, which predators learn to use to reduce their intake of toxic prey. Like other types of prey, aposematic prey often differ in body size, both within and between species. Increasing body size can increase signal size, which make lar...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Smith KE,Halpin CG,Rowe C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Hursh and Silberberg (2008) have advanced a behavior-economic approach to measure the value of reinforcers, in which demand elasticity is measured relative to the point at which price is zero, a technique that allows for comparisons across reinforcers that show different consumption patterns or across differ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Oliveira-Castro JM,Foxall GR,Yan J,Wells VK

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between persistence, as measured by resistance to change, and resurgence has been examined with nonhuman animals but not systematically with humans. The present study examined persistence and resurgence with undergraduate students engaging in a computer task for points exchangeable for money. In Phase 1, ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kuroda T,Cançado CR,Podlesnik CA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Monty Hall Dilemma (MHD), a contestant makes a guess as to which door conceals a prize. The host then reveals the contents of an unchosen, incorrect door, and then gives the contestant a choice of sticking with the initial guess or switching to the remaining door. Given certain crucial assumptions, the rational...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Granberg D

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:We developed a shaping procedure for training Florida red-bellied cooters, Pseudemys nelsoni, to dislodge clear plastic bottles to obtain food pellets. The animals were then trained in a 2-choice problem to choose only the bottle containing pellets. All nine turtles learned the task of knocking over bottles for food. ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Davis KM,Burghardt GM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, human subjects were asked to estimate their present values of single delayed rewards and their present values of temporal sequences of three rewards. Present values were solicited by asking subjects to indicate an amount of money v for which they would be indifferent between receiving v at the end ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kirby KN

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments indicated the effects of an early bilateral stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus on later learning behaviour of male rats. The animals were stimulated at 15 days of age and tested during the sixth week of life. Stimulated rats showed an improvement of performances in acquisition of a food-reinforc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Velley L,Manciet G,Cardo B

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral patterns of pairs of guinea pigs were recorded in 15-min observation sessions on alternate days during a 6-day baseline phase and a 21- to 25-day period following the introduction of an ascorbate-free diet. Ascorbate-deficient animals were compared to two pair-fed control groups. During the last 5 days of t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kaufmann P,Wiens W,Dirks M,Krehbiel D

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence of previously reinforced responding was investigated in male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). Swimming through a ring produced 15-s mirror presentations according to, with different fish, either a fixed-ratio 1 or a variable-interval 60-s schedule of reinforcement. When responding was stable, a diff...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva SP,Cançado CR,Lattal KA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical principles of reinforcement (MPR) attempts to integrate the empirical laws of reinforcement schedules that have accumulated over the decades. MPR is based on three principles: incentives excite behavior; there are temporal constraints on responding; and coupling of responses to reinforcers strengthens beh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Reilly MP

更新日期：2003-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ctenodactylus gundi, a colonial rodent inhabiting saharian Atlas, is often seen standing at the top of the rocks. At more or less regular intervals, another conspecific is taking the place of the "resident" animal. This relief impues only amicable reliationships and is to be considered as a kind of cooperation. The fu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gouat P,Ggouat J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that wheel running in rats produces conditioned taste avoidance; that is, rats that run in wheels after consuming a novel-tasting solution later consume less of that solution than rats that do not run. In experiment 1, we found that wheel running also produces conditioned disgust reactions, indi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Grant VL,McDonald SV,Sheppard RC,Caldwell CL,Heeley TH,Brown AR,Martin GM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates perceive many object features through vision and touch. To date, little is known on how the synergy of these two sensory modalities contributes to enhance object recognition. Here, we investigated in capuchin monkeys (N = 12) whether manipulating objects and retaining tactile information enhanced visual recog...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carducci P,Squillace V,Manzi G,Truppa V

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrasonic calls produced by three day old mice when separated from the nest mother and siblings increase in number when naloxone is injected. ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Robinson DJ,D'Udine B,Olivero A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosocial stress can cause mental conditions such as depression in humans. To develop drug therapies for the treatment of depression, it is necessary to use animal models of depression to screen drug candidates that exhibit anti-depressive effects. Unfortunately, the present methods of drug screening for antidepres...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Otabi H,Goto T,Okayama T,Kohari D,Toyoda A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the use of ventilatory frequency (VF) as an indicator of stress in the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.). Firstly, we tested the relationship between VF and plasma cortisol after confinement. Confined fish showed higher VF and plasma cortisol levels, but the latter continued to increase signif...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barreto RE,Volpato GL

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication systems that involve substrate vibrations are increasingly a focus of research since this communication mode - recently termed biotremology - has been found to be remarkably widespread in the animal kingdom. Vibrational signals are often used during courtship and therefore underlie both natural and sexua...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Eberhard MJB,Metze D,Küpper SC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the multi-faceted relationship between cognitive competence and affective states is a major pursuit in behavioral sciences. Mood disorders constitute a good research model for this question, as cognitive impairment may accompany clinical depression and persist after full remission. This suggests cognitive ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Atesyakar N,Canbeyli R,Unal G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult male Wistar rats were trained to find an escape box in the Barnes maze in order to characterize the extinction process of a learned spatial preference. To do so, once they had fully acquired the spatial task, they were repeatedly exposed to the maze without the escape box. Multiple behavioral measurements (group...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vargas-López V,Lamprea MR,Múnera A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a simulated open-field situation we tried to obtain information about the ability of tomcats to distinguish between urine marks of differing ages. Reactions to these marks were sniffing, sniffing intensively and "Flehmen". The variables we chose to demonstrate a possible discriminatory ability between urine marks o...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： De Boer JN

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) living in a large enclosure received food which varied in desirability and spatial distribution. Feeding and agonistic behaviour of four hierarchical subgroups were analyzed. In general, there was less aggression and improved feeding rates with dispersed food than with piled ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Belzung C,Anderson JR

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess whether adult stallions differentiate their olfactory and marking behaviour towards the excreta of their potential male rivals and mares. Four Konik polski stallions were individually exposed simultaneously to their own and each others' faeces as well as faeces of mares in oestrus vs...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jezierski T,Jaworski Z,Sobczyńska M,Ensminger J,Górecka-Bruzda A

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:It is widely accepted that stationary prey are able to carefully assess the risk levels associated with an approaching predator to make informative decisions on when to escape. However, little is known about subsequent decision-making process. We set out to compare whether escape durations of three species of corvids ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tätte K,Møller AP,Mänd R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocal individual identification has been demonstrated in many animals, with discriminant function analysis (DFA) and spectrographic cross-correlation (SPCC) being the two most frequent methods. Successful vocal individual identification requires high among-individual differences and within-individual stability over ti...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chen G,Xia C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In serial feature-negative (SFN) training to a target unconditioned stimulus (US), eight rats received two types of intermingled trials: (1) trials in which a tone was followed by the delivery of a single food pellet US, and (2) trials in which the delivery of a single food pellet US was followed by three additional f...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Goddard MJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00