Motivation and ability to walk for a food reward in fast- and slow-growing broilers to 12 weeks of age.

abstract：:Development of a widely accepted vocabulary referring to various types of social learning has made important contributions to decades of progress in analyzing the role of socially acquired information in the development of behavioral repertoires. It is argued here that emergence of a consensus vocabulary, while facili...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galef BG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study used the protocol established to produce retroactive interference (RI) in contextual memory paradigms and applied it to an appetitive learning setting. Rats were first subjected to the learning of an operant conditioning, action-outcome (A-O) association and were tested in a probe (A-O probe) session...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Pattabhiraman H,Ward RD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that animals are able to discriminate between quantities. Recent studies have shown that dogs' and coyotes' ability to discriminate between quantities of food items decreases with increasing numerical ratio. Conversely, wolves' performance is not affected by numerical ratio. Cross-speci...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Miletto Petrazzini ME,Wynne CDL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pigeons responded under a progressive-delay procedure. In a signaled-delay condition, a chained variable interval (VI) 30-s progressive time (PT) 4-s schedule was arranged; in an unsignaled-delay condition, a tandem VI 30-s PT 4-s schedule was arranged. Two pigeons experienced a signaled-unsignaled-signaled seque...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Thomas LD,Hughes CE,Pitts RC

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：:Variation of reproductive success, an important determinant of the opportunity for sexual selection, is an outcome of competition within one sex for mating with members of the other sex. In promiscuous species, males typically compete for access to females, and their reproductive strategies are strongly related to the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Borkowska A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment tested the hypothesis that changes in rate of reinforcement affect the rate of an internal pacemaker as suggested by the Behavioral Theory of Timing (BeT: Killeen and Fetterman, 1988). Pigeons were trained to discriminate durations of 10 s and 20 s, and then exposed to higher or lower rates of freely d...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Morgan L,Killeen PR,Fetterman JG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a promising model organism for affective or cognitive neuroscience research, and may be useful to study the interplay between memory and anxiety-related states. To assess the effects of acute psychological stress on spatial and cued memory, adult zebrafish were trained in an ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gaikwad S,Stewart A,Hart P,Wong K,Piet V,Cachat J,Kalueff AV

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of cue competition on timing in both overshadowing and blocking operant procedures with pigeons. A white center key delivered reward when pecked 30s after a red or green sidekey was presented and 10s after presentation of the alternate color on the other sidekey. In Experiment 1, key presentatio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： McMillan N,Roberts WA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female and male animals often choose mates based upon the complementarity of their courtship behaviours and preferences. The importance of this fact on the evolutionary dynamics of populations has long been appreciated. What has not been appreciated is the role that social learning might play in the transmission of sy...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Freeberg TM

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether rats' rates of licking or pressing a lever for 1% liquid sucrose delivered by a continuous reinforcement schedule would decrease (contrast) or increase (induction) when the upcoming period would allow access to 32% sucrose and whether such changes would be influenced by how long ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weatherly JN,Nurnberger JT,Arthur EI,King BM

更新日期：2005-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:"Behavior which is effective only through the mediation of other persons has so many distinguishing dynamic and topographical properties that a special treatment is justified and indeed demanded" (Skinner, 1957, p. 2). Skinner's demand for a special treatment of verbal behavior can be extended within that field to dom...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Marr MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to compare the performance of a chimpanzee and humans on auditory-visual intermodal matching of conspecifics and non-conspecifics. The task consisted of matching vocal samples to facial images of the corresponding vocalizers. We tested the chimpanzee and human subjects with both chimpanzee a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Martinez L,Matsuzawa T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality and physiological traits often have close relationships with dominance status, but the significance and/or direction of the relationships vary between studies. This study examines whether two personality traits (aggressiveness and boldness) and three physiological traits (testosterone and cortisol levels a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Li CY,Tseng YC,Chen YJ,Yang Y,Hsu Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we present electroencephalographic (EEG) recording data obtained in correlation with timing behavior in rats trained in a 30-s peak interval (PI) procedure. The distribution of lever press responses was found to be Gaussian, peaking at approximately 30s: lever pressing behavior increased for 30s then de...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hattori M,Sakata S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased physical exercise is known to prevent leg problems in meat-type chickens. Our aims were to study in detail the organisation of general and locomotor activity, to determine how physical exercise could be promoted and to investigate the effects of tonic immobility (TI) duration on spontaneous activity. Chicks ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bizeray D,Leterrier C,Constantin P,Le Pape G,Faure JM

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of trail communication by red wood-ants, Formica aquilonia Yarrow, foraging to sugar baits, was investigated by providing a laboratory colony with aqueous sucrose at two novel feeding sites, with a third site, providing no food, as a control. During trials, the sites were connected to the nest by paper bridges...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lamb AE,Ollason JG

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:Social learning refers to individuals learning from others, including information gained through indirect social influences, such as the results of others' actions and changes in the physical environment. One method to determine the relative influence of these varieties of information is the 'ghost display', in which ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hopper LM,Lambeth SP,Schapiro SJ,Whiten A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species recognition is essential for efficient communication between conspecifics. For this to occur, species information must be unambiguously encoded in the repertoire of each species' vocalizations. Until now, the study of species recognition in songbirds has been focused mainly on male songs and male territorial b...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Charrier I,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct conceptualisations of processing mechanisms have been proposed in the research on the perception of temporal order, one that assumes a central-timing mechanism that is involved in the detection of temporal order independent of modality and stimulus type, another one assuming feature-specific mechanisms th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fink M,Ulbrich P,Churan J,Wittmann M

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The gambler's fallacy is defined as the avoidance of a winning outcome in a stochastic environment with a constant probability. We tested the possibility that the gambler's fallacy in humans is responsive to the amount of time between choice allocations. Two groups of subjects were placed in a six-choice betting game ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Militana E,Wolfson E,Cleaveland JM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectotherms have been shown being lateralized as well as mammals and birds. This is particularly evident in visual lateralization, i.e. the different use of the eyes, leading to use a specific eye to observe specific kind of stimuli and to process them with the correspondent contralateral hemisphere. Several lower vert...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bonati B,Csermely D,Romani R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence of previously extinguished behavior may occur when a recently reinforced alternative response is placed on extinction. Understanding the conditions that produce and reduce resurgence is important for both basic and applied researchers. Research on resurgence of human behavior may benefit from methods that f...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bolívar HA,Cox DJ,Barlow MA,Dallery J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial expressions have been extensively used to assess emotions in humans and thus could be extended to other species that also display facial movements. In mice both painful and fearful situations have been associated with particular shifts in facial expressions. Like other species, mice frequently show a great inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lecorps B,Féron C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of motivation have been traditionally classified along the lines of homeostatic/ priming dichotomies using a diversity of definitions and names. Here, similar classification is used to describe a model of behaviour made of two well-defined mechanisms connected in series representing priming and homeostasis, and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kadri FL,Duncan IJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social play is a window on cognitive and communicative abilities of species. Inter-specific play, in particular, is a fertile venue to explore the capacity to correctly perceive and interpret signals emitted by partners. Up to now, most studies have focussed on dog-human play due to the important implications such stu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Maglieri V,Bigozzi F,Riccobono MG,Palagi E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment with rats investigated forgetting of inhibition of delay in the conditioned suppression paradigm. The combined effects of contextual change and retention interval were tested. After a reliable temporal discrimination was reached, half of the rats received a test in the training context after a retention ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rosas JM,Alonso G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of syllable variation tolerance was tested using synthetic homologue syllables. A synthetic copy of a common syllable type of cirl bunting Emberiza cirlus song was used as control. Homologue syllables, in the same frequency range but shorter or longer, were created by multiplying (2/3, 5/3, 7/3) the time sc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kreutzer ML

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00