The perception of empty and filled time intervals by rats.

abstract：:Previous research suggested that 16-week old dog pups, but not wolf pups, show attachment behaviour to a human caregiver. Attachment to a caregiver in dog pups has been demonstrated by differential responding to a caregiver compared to a stranger in the Ainsworth Strange Situation Test. We show here that 3-7 week old ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hall NJ,Lord K,Arnold AM,Wynne CD,Udell MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although natural selection may favour the evolution of an optimal brood size, unpredictable environmental factors can intervene to render the brood either considerably larger or smaller than this optimum. The question therefore arises as to how parents should respond to unusually large or small litters. Solutions to t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mendl M

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:In the current study we assessed the possibility of developing intraexperimentally behavioral priming and Event Related Potentials (ERP) effects that are often studied with stimuli to which participants typically have a very extensive pre-experimental history, like words. To do so we used abstract geometrical figures ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ortu D,Vaidya M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forced Swimming Test (FST) models behavioural despair in animals by loss of motivation to respond or the refusal to escape. The present study was aimed at characterizing genetic (genotype and gender) and environmental factors (age/stage of disease and rearing conditions: C, standard; H, early postnatal handling; EE, e...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Torres-Lista V,Giménez-Llort L

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Most studies of mate choice have focused on female preference for male traits because it is generally assumed that since males provide less parental investment they are not choosy. However, if males suffer missed opportunity costs by mating with lower quality females, selection should favor males with the ability to d...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Costello AK,Pultorak JD,Meikle DB

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Male and female rats of the inbred August and Fischer strains were reared during two months after weaning either in a standard laboratory environment (controls) or in a more complex environment (treated animals). The performance of these rats was measured afterwards in an operant conditioning situation with positive r...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Will B,Ungerer A,Pallaud B,Ropartz P

更新日期：1977-12-01 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：:Operant and maze tasks in mice are limited by the small number of trials possible in a session before mice lose motivation. We hypothesized that by manipulating reward size and session length, motivation, and hence performance, would be maintained in an automated T-maze. We predicted that larger rewards and shorter se...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gaskill BN,Lucas JR,Pajor EA,Garner JP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on categorization has changed over time, and some of these changes resemble how Wittgenstein's views changed from his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to his Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein initially focused on unambiguous, abstract, parsimonious, logical propositions and rules, and on independent, s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Shimp CP

更新日期：2004-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In delay discounting, choice is between two reinforcers that differ in amount and delay, and the subjective value of either reinforcer decreases as a function of delay to its receipt. The steepness of the discounting function is thought to reflect the degree of impulsive choice. Many factors can influence impulsive ch...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Huskinson SL,Anderson KG

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Time-place learning based on food association was investigated in eight food-restricted Nile tilapias. Each fish was individually housed for 10 days in an experimental tank for adjustments to laboratory conditions, and fed daily in excess. Feeding was then interrupted for 17 days. Training was then started, based on a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Delicio HC,Barreto RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:On daily time-place learning tasks animals can work for food at different spatial locations during sessions at different times of the day. In previous experiments rats tracked this pattern of food availability with ordinal timing-they learned to respond at the locations in the correct order each day. In contrast, pige...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carr JA,Wilkie DM

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:In the first experiment, farmed blue foxes were allowed to choose for 1 week between four standard farm cages equipped with different floor materials: plastic-coated wire mesh, dry wood, dry sand and wet (summer) or icy (winter) sand. Resting consisted of 10-15 separate bouts/day occupying 50-60% of the total 24-h. Th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Harri M,Kasanen S,Mononen J,Sepponen J

更新日期：2000-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ground squirrels emit species-specific alarm calls that, among other characteristics, differ by the number of elements. Unlike some species that produce single-element calls, e.g., the Speckled ground squirrel (Spermophilus suslicus), individual European ground squirrels (S. citellus) frequently emit binary-element ca...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Schneiderová I,Volodina EV,Matrosova VA,Volodin IA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The social behavior of a group of twenty hybrid macaques and one M. fascicularis was investigated to determine the patterns of sociality and social integration within the group. Observation focused on the behavior categories of social affiliation and cohesion. Inter-animal proximity, social grooming, and inter-animal ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Williams LE

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated rats' preferences for using non-spatial and spatial cues in a missing-object recognition task. Rats were trained to find a sunflower seed under any one of four previously missing adjacent objects, the test array of a trial, after having found seeds under three of them in the 'study' array of th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Arain M,Cohen J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of day-old chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) to discriminate between the shape and size of beads was investigated in two one-trial tasks, taste avoidance and sickness-conditioned learning. Previous studies determined that color is a critical classification cue for conditioned stimuli in these tasks. In tas...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barber TA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies were carried out to test the ability of Préalpes du Sud x Lacaune (Study 1) and Rambouillet ewes (Study 2) to recognize their lambs during the first 24 h postpartum. Ewes were given the choice between their own and an alien lamb of approximately the same age, in a triangular pen of 10 m×10 m×10 m. A lamb w...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Terrazas A,Ferreira G,Lévy F,Nowak R,Serafin N,Orgeur P,Soto R,Poindron P

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional response, i.e. the change in per capita food intake rate per time unit with changed food availability, is a widely used tool for understanding the ecology and behaviour of animals. However, waterfowl remain poorly explored in this context. In an aviary experiment we derived a functional response curve f...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Arzel C,Guillemain M,Gurd DB,Elmberg J,Fritz H,Arnaud A,Pin C,Bosca F

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：:The purpose of this experiment was to investigate 5- and 8-year-olds' long-term memory for stimulus duration in a bisection task. Children were trained to discriminate between a short and a long standard duration presented as visual stimulus for 2 and 8 s, respectively. They had then to decide whether an intermediate ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rattat A,Droit-Volet S

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mated pairs of Mongolian gerbils were rejoined by two of their own young, of both sexes, after periods of separation starting when the young were four or seven weeks of age and lasting either one or four weeks. An additional group of young was separated from their parents when six weeks old, this time for two weeks. T...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Le Guelte L,le Berre M,Coulon J,Amagat C

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worker ants, which perform various tasks in their society (division of labour or polyethism), also demonstrate different types of antennal activity in trophallactic interactions. These differences concern the variability in successions of behavioural units performed by the worker in the course of substance transmissio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bonavita-Cougourdan A,Morel L

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00