Spatial learning in pigs: effects of environmental enrichment and individual characteristics on behaviour and performance.

abstract：:An adult California sea lion ( Zalophus californianus) with extensive experience in performing discrimination learning tasks was tested to evaluate her long-term memory for two previously learned concepts. An associative concept, that of equivalence classification, was retested after a retention interval of approximat...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Reichmuth Kastak C,Schusterman RJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desert harvester ant (Veromessor pergandei) employs a mixture of social and individual navigational strategies at separate stages of their foraging trip. Individuals leave the nest along a pheromone-based column, travelling 3-40 m before spreading out to forage individually in a fan. Foragers use path integration ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Freas CA,Congdon JV,Plowes NJR,Spetch ML

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning can occur through self-experience with the environment, or through the observation of others. The latter allows for adaptive behaviour without trial-and-error, thus maximizing individual fitness. Perhaps given their mostly solitary lifestyle, cuttlefish have seldomly been tested under observational learning s...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sampaio E,Ramos CS,Bernardino BLM,Bleunven M,Augustin ML,Moura É,Lopes VM,Rosa R

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：: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：:Few studies have examined whether non-human tool-users understand the properties that are relevant for a tool's function. We tested cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on an expectancy violation procedure designed to assess whether these species make distinctions between the fun...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Santos LR,Miller CT,Hauser MD

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Evolutionary theories suggest that ecology is a major factor shaping cognition in primates. However, there have been few systematic tests of spatial memory abilities involving multiple primate species. Here, we examine spatial memory skills in four strepsirrhine primates that vary in level of frugivory: ruffed lemurs ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Rosati AG,Rodriguez K,Hare B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from the literature indicates that dogs' choices can be influenced by human-delivered social cues, such as pointing, and pointing combined with facial expression, intonation (i.e., rising and falling voice pitch), and/or words. The present study used an object choice task to investigate whether intonation con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Colbert-White EN,Tullis A,Andresen DR,Parker KM,Patterson KE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While viewing faces, human adults often demonstrate a natural gaze bias towards the left visual field, that is, the right side of the viewee's face is often inspected first and for longer periods. Using a preferential looking paradigm, we demonstrate that this bias is neither uniquely human nor limited to primates, an...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Guo K,Meints K,Hall C,Hall S,Mills D

更新日期：2009-05-01 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

abstract：:Theory and empirical findings predict that individuals in a negative affective state are more sensitive to unexpected reward loss and less sensitive to unexpected reward gain compared to individuals in a neutral or positive affective state. We explore the use of sensitivity to reward shifts measured during successive ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tan SLT,Handasyde KA,Rault JL,Mendl M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer whales (KW) may be predators or competitors of other cetaceans. Since their foraging behavior and acoustics differ among populations ('ecotypes'), we hypothesized that other cetaceans can eavesdrop on KW sounds and adjust their behavior according to the KW ecotype. We performed playback experiments on long-finn...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Curé C,Isojunno S,I Vester H,Visser F,Oudejans M,Biassoni N,Massenet M,Barluet de Beauchesne L,J Wensveen P,Sivle LD,Tyack PL,Miller PJO

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many wild primates occupy large home ranges and travel long distances each day. Navigating these ranges to find sufficient food presents a substantial cognitive challenge, but we are still far from understanding either how primates represent spatial information mentally or how they use this information to navigate und...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Di Fiore A,Suarez SA

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original article shows incorrect values for 'Coef. and Robust SE' under the heading. ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Perry S

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Learning abilities are exhibited by many animals, including insects. However, sedentary species are typically believed to have low capacities and requirements for learning. Despite this view, recent studies show that even such inconspicuous organisms as larval antlions, which employ an ambush predation strategy, are c...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kuszewska K,Miler K,Filipiak M,Woyciechowski M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs enrolled in a previous study were assessed two years later for reliability of their local/global preference in a discrimination test with the same hierarchical stimuli used in the previous study (Experiment 1) and with a novel stimulus (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, dogs easily re-learned to discriminate the po...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Mongillo P,Pitteri E,Sambugaro P,Carnier P,Marinelli L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some nonhuman species demonstrate metamemory, the ability to monitor and control memory. Here, we identify memory signals that control metamemory judgments in rhesus monkeys by directly comparing performance in two metamemory paradigms while holding the availability of one memory signal constant and manipulating anoth...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Brown EK,Basile BM,Templer VL,Hampton RR

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish move in a three-dimensional environment in which it is important to discriminate between stimuli varying in colour, size, and shape. It is also advantageous to be able to recognize the same structures or individuals when presented from different angles, such as back to front or front to side. This study assessed ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Schluessel V,Kraniotakes H,Bleckmann H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trait heritability is necessary for evolution by both natural and artificial selection, yet we know little about the heritability of cognitive traits. Domestic dogs are a valuable study system for questions regarding the evolution of phenotypic diversity due to their extraordinary intraspecific variation. While previo...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Gnanadesikan GE,Hare B,Snyder-Mackler N,MacLean EL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans readily group component elements into a coherent perceptual whole and perceive the global form of visual patterns in priority over local features, which stands in contrast to at least some data from the animal literature, suggesting possible species differences in perceptual processes. In this study, chimpanzee...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Martin-Malivel J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six rats were trained to find a previously missing target or 'jackpot' object in a square array of four identical or different objects (the test segment of a trial) after first visiting and collecting sunflower seeds from under the other three objects (the study segment of a trial). During training, objects' local pos...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Arain M,Parameswaran V,Cohen J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual search asymmetry has been used as an important tool for exploring cognitive mechanisms in humans. Here, we examined visual search asymmetry in two macaques toward two types of stimulus: the orientation of line stimuli and face-like stimuli. In the experiment, the monkeys were required to detect an odd target am...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Nakata R,Eifuku S,Tamura R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the influence of different procedures on chimpanzees' performance in object-choice tasks, five adult chimpanzees were tested using three experimenter-given cues to food location: gazing, glancing, and pointing. These cues were delivered to the subjects in an identical fashion but were deployed within the con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Barth J,Reaux JE,Povinelli DJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Movement recognition is central to visual perception and cognition, yet its origins are poorly understood. Can newborn animals encode and recognize movements at the onset of vision, or does this ability have a protracted developmental trajectory? To address this question, we used an automated controlled-rearing method...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Goldman JG,Wood JN

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban animals and birds in particular are able to cope with diverse novel threats in a city environment such as avoiding novel, unfamiliar predators. Predator avoidance often includes alarm signals that can be used also by hetero-specifics, which is mainly the case in mixed-species flocks. It can also occur when speci...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bílá K,Beránková J,Veselý P,Bugnyar T,Schwab C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to use heterospecific alarm calls is adaptive in the wild, as it provides an opportunity to avoid predators. We now know that several species are able to respond to alarm calls intended for others. However, this capacity has never been investigated in domestic animals. The capacity to use heterospecific al...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dutour M,Danel S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows evidence of a domestic cat (Felis catus) being able to successfully learn to reproduce human-demonstrated actions based on the Do as I Do paradigm. The subject was trained to reproduce a small set of familiar actions on command "Do it!" before the study began. To test feature-contingent behavioural si...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Fugazza C,Sommese A,Pogány Á,Miklósi Á

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00