Non-contingent positive and negative reinforcement schedules of superstitious behaviors.

abstract：:The present study was performed to investigate whether and how pre-exposure to an object affects subsequent filial imprinting to that object. In Experiment 1 junglefowl chicks (Gallus gallus spadiceus) were first exposed to either a red object alone (control group), or a red and a yellow object simultaneously (experim...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： van Kampen HS,de Vos GJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：: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：:Fourteen Göttingen minipigs were trained on two different visually guided conditional associative tasks. In a spatial conditional task, a black stimulus signalled that a response to the left was correct, and a white stimulus signalled that a response to the right was correct. In a conditional go/no-go task, a blue sti...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Moustgaard A,Arnfred SM,Lind NM,Hemmingsen R,Hansen AK

更新日期：2005-01-31 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：:Unrestrained, naı̈ve cats (Felis silvestris catus) (n=48: 28 males and 20 females), living in a natural domestic environment, were studied for paw preferences using a food reaching test. A total of 46% were right-preferent, 44% were left-preferent and 10% were ambilateral. 60% of the cats in our sample used one paw 10...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Pike AV,Maitland DP

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory decay is rapid at first and slower later-a feature that accounts for Jost's memory law: that old memories gain on newer ones with lapse of time. The rate-sensitive property of habituation-that recovery after spaced stimuli may be slower than after massed-provides a clue to the dynamics of memory decay. Rate-sen...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Staddon JE,Chelaru IM,Higa JJ

更新日期：2002-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of animal timing often assume the existence of a pacemaker whose variance is produced by a Poisson process. Later stages in these models typically include an accumulator, additional sources of variance, and a process in which the accumulated value is compared to reference memory. Together, these stages produce ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Reid AK,Allen DL

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:Proceptive and receptive aspects of behaviour were studied during the oestrus cycle of the female pig. These aspects were studied in a T-maze with one or two stimulus compartments that did or did not contain a teaser boar. Receptive behaviour was observed during several consecutive days and was quantified in front of ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： de Jonge FH,Mekking P,Abbott K,Wiepkema PR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In temperate songbirds, song has traditionally been considered a vocalization mainly produced by males. However, in many temperate species, it is now recognized that both males and females produce song. The function and structure of male black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee song have been well-studied...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hahn AH,Krysler A,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Java sparrows were exposed to a mirror and a frosted mirror, a mirror and a live bird, a mirror and a live bird with frosted screen, a closed circuit TV monitor and a TV program or the closed circuit monitor and an upside down monitor. The birds showed strong preference for the self-image on the mirror, the live bird ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Watanabe S

更新日期：2002-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the psychological literature there are a number of models that reproduce the defining properties of habituation to a single stimulus. However, most of them do not reproduce the phenomenon of dishabituation shown in empirical studies, consisting in the recovery of a stimulus previously habituated upon the appear...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： del Rosal E,Alonso L,Moreno R,Vázquez M,Santacreu J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has begun to examine how individuals discount delayed sex. However, these tasks have not evaluated the dimension of sexual behavior associated with promiscuity (i.e., choices between partners). The current study assessed choices between hypothetical sexual partners within a delay discounting paradigm. Partici...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jarmolowicz DP,Lemley SM,Asmussen L,Reed DD

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:A pigeon earned its daily food by pecking a key according to reinforcement schedules that produced food about once per day. Fixed-interval (FI), Fixed-time (FT), and various complex schedules were arranged to demonstrate the degree to which a scalloped pattern of responding remained. Pausing continued until about an h...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Eckerman DA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of pigeons learned a two key conditional discrimination. Color was the conditional stimulus and form the choice stimulus for subjects in one group. Form was the conditional stimulus and color the choice stimulus in the other group. Half the subjects in each group then underwent an intradimensional shift: Th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Meltzer D,Robertson K

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 20th century there has been considerable progress in the study of animal cognition, based on essential ideas that were developed earlier. These essential ideas include the metaphors of the animal, the questions, the sources of hypotheses, and the types of explanations. The progress cannot be generally chara...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Church RM

更新日期：2001-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the abundant empirical evidence on lateralized social behaviours, a clear understanding of the relative roles of two brain hemispheres in social processing is still lacking. This study investigated visual lateralization in social interactions of free-ranging European bison (Bison bonasus). The bison were more ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Giljov A,Karenina K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence and research interest of animal personality, its underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Due to the essential role of monoamines in modulating behaviour, we manipulated the monoaminergic systems of Mediterranean field crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus) to explore whether this altered beh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lundgren KA,Abbey-Lee RN,Garnham LC,Kreshchenko A,Ryding S,Løvlie H

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:Ambient temperature and air pressure are relevant stimuli that can elicit hormonal responses in alignment with adjusting individuals' physiology and behaviour. This study investigated possible changes in corticosterone (C) and testosterone (T) and contingencies with behaviour in response to ambient temperature and air...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dorn S,Wascher CA,Möstl E,Kotrschal K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural cycles of light and darkness shift the balance of risks and gains for animals across space and time. Entrainment to photic cycles allows animals to spatiotemporally adapt their behavioural and physiological processes in line with interplaying ecological factors, such as temperature, foraging efficiency and pre...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hart EE,Fennessy J,Hauenstein S,Ciuti S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of infants in the communal rearing system of marmosets and tamarins has received little attention although their demands may not be complied by inadequate helpers. As acoustic signalling plays an important role in their social communication, it is expected to be an effective way for infants to signal their de...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Geiss S,Schrader L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In social species such as house mouse, being dominant is vital. Determination of dominance may start early in life and vary during ontogeny. We asked whether pre-pubertal and adolescent behaviour predicts the rank a male mouse finally obtains. Moreover, we asked how dominant vs. subordinate adults differ in exploratio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hiadlovská Z,Hamplová P,Berchová Bímová K,Macholán M,Vošlajerová Bímová B

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:The effects of ectopic pituitary isografts on response to novelty were studied in adult Snell Dwarf mice. Because of anterohypophyseal deficiency, these animals exhibit dwarfism, sterility and marked neurochemical and behavioural deficits. When given the opportunity to move around freely in simultaneously presented no...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bouchon R,Misslin R,Vogel E,Ropartz P

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：:Giant African pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) have been employed successfully in two operational tuberculosis-detection projects in which they sniff sputum samples from symptomatic individuals who have visited tuberculosis clinics. The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in this population is high, approximately 2...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Edwards TL,Ellis H,Watkins EE,Mulder C,Mgode G,Cox C,Poling A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00