Recognition of a 3D snake model and its 2D photographic image by captive black tufted-ear marmosets (Callithrix penicillata).

abstract：:Learning about food palatability from watching what conspecifics eat might be one of the advantages of group living. A previous study investigated whether group members' presence or eating activity account for social facilitation of eating of foods never previously tasted. Capuchins encountered novel colored foods whe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Addessi E,Visalberghi E

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments explored the duration of dogs' working memory in an object permanence task: a delay was introduced between the disappearance of a moving object behind a box and the beginning of the search by the animal. In experiment 1, the dogs were tested with retention intervals of 0, 10, 30, and 60 s. Results reve...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Fiset S,Beaulieu C,Landry F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments assessed the ability of four adult female chimpanzees to categorize natural objects. Chimpanzees were initially trained to match different color photographs of familiar objects from four possible categories. In training, all the comparison stimuli were from the same category in one condition, and from ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tanaka M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman animals demonstrate a number of impressive quantitative skills such as counting sets of items, comparing sets on the basis of the number of items or amount of material, and even responding to simple arithmetic manipulations. In this experiment, capuchin monkeys were presented with a computerized task designed...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Beran MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Like humans, Old World monkeys are known to use configural face processing to distinguish among individuals. The ability to recognize an individual through the perception of subtle differences in the configuration of facial features plays an important role in social cognition. To test this ability in New World monkeys...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Nakata R,Osada Y

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairing a previously neutral conditioned stimulus (CS; e.g., a tone) to an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US; e.g., a foot-shock) leads to associative learning such that the tone alone will elicit a conditioned response (e.g., freezing). Individuals can also acquire fear from a social context, such as through observ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jones CE,Riha PD,Gore AC,Monfils MH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following passive disorientation, Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) learned to search for a hidden food reward located in one corner of a rectangular-shaped enclosure that contained either identical or distinct features in each corner. Identical features allowed for explicit learning of geometric cues, wherea...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Reichert JF,Kelly DM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group living confers ecological benefits, and the associated fitness gain may be positively related to the size of the group. Thus, the ability to discriminate numerical differences may confer important fitness advantages in social fish. There is evidence that this ability can be improved by behavioral interactions am...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bai Y,Tang ZH,Fu SJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:In recent decades, cognitive and behavioral knowledge in dogs seems to have developed considerably, as deduced from the published peer-reviewed articles. However, to date, the worldwide trend of scientific research on dog cognition and behavior has never been explored using a bibliometric approach, while the evaluatio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Aria M,Alterisio A,Scandurra A,Pinelli C,D'Aniello B

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:For group-living mammals, social coordination increases success in everything from hunting and foraging (Crofoot and Wrangham in Mind the Gap, Springer, Berlin, 2010; Bailey et al. in Behav Ecol Sociobiol 67:1-17, 2013) to agonism (Mosser and Packer in Anim Behav 78:359-370, 2009; Wilson et al. in Anim Behav 83:277-29...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Cassidy KA,McIntyre RT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1970s, the ability of some invertebrate species to recognize individual conspecifics has attracted increased scientific interest. However, there is still confusion in the literature, possibly due to the lack of unambiguous criteria for classifying social recognition in its different forms. Here, we synthesiz...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Gherardi F,Aquiloni L,Tricarico E

更新日期：2012-09-01 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

abstract：:We examined inferential reasoning by exclusion in the Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) using two-way object-choice procedures. While other social scatter-hoarding corvids appear capable of engaging in inferential reasoning, it remains unclear if the relatively less social nutcracker is able to do so. In an in...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tornick JK,Gibson BM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When animals show both frequent innovation and fast social learning, new behaviours can spread more rapidly through populations and potentially increase rates of natural selection and speciation, as proposed by A.C. Wilson in his behavioural drive hypothesis. Comparative work on primates suggests that more innovative ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bouchard J,Goodyer W,Lefebvre L

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantity discrimination is adaptive in a variety of ecological contexts and different taxa discriminate stimuli differing in numerousness, both in the wild and in laboratory settings. Quantity discrimination between object arrays has been suggested to be more demanding than between food arrays but, to our knowledge, t...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Addessi E,Crescimbene L,Visalberghi E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bumblebees are capable of rapidly learning discriminations, but flexibility in bumblebee learning is less well understood. We tested bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) on a serial reversal learning task. A serial reversal task requires learning of an initial discrimination between two differentially rewarded stimuli, follo...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Strang CG,Sherry DF

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed at evaluating possible behavioural differences between guide dogs living in a kennel and interacting with a trainer and those living in a house and interacting with a blind person and their family, when they are faced with an unsolvable task. Fifty-two Labrador retrievers were tested: 13 Traine...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Scandurra A,Prato-Previde E,Valsecchi P,Aria M,D'Aniello B

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:We examined whether cats have a cross-modal representation of humans, using a cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm originally used with dogs by Adachi et al. (Anim Cogn 10:17-21, 2007). We compared cats living in houses and in cat cafés to assess the potential effect of postnatal experience. Cats were presented w...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takagi S,Arahori M,Chijiiwa H,Saito A,Kuroshima H,Fujita K

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Much recent comparative work has been devoted to exploring what nonhuman primates understand about physical causality. However, few laboratory experiments have attempted to test what nonhumans understand about what physical acts others are capable of performing. We tested seven chimpanzees' ability to predict which of...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Vonk J,Subiaul F

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the amount of rivals is crucial to optimally adjust investment into a contest. If laboratory animals show numerical abilities, little is known about the ecological implications particularly in young animals. The two to nine barn owl (Tyto alba) siblings vocally compete for priority of access to food resource...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ruppli CA,Dreiss AN,Roulin A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tests whether the face-processing system of humans and a nonhuman primate species share characteristics that would allow for early and quick processing of socially salient stimuli: a sensitivity toward conspecific faces, a sensitivity toward highly practiced face stimuli, and an ability to generalize change...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Neiworth JJ,Hassett JM,Sylvester CJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Cotesia vestalis, a parasitoid wasp of diamondback moth larvae and three crucifer plant species (cabbage, komatsuna, and Japanese radish), we examined the effects of exposure to host-infested plant volatiles from one plant species on a newly emerged wasp's subsequent olfactory cognition of host-infested plant vo...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Yoneya K,Uefune M,Takabayashi J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great apes can use multiple tools to extract food embedded in substrates and can invent new ways to exploit those resources. We tested five bonobos, five chimpanzees, and six orangutans in a task in which they had to use (and modify) a tool as a straw to drink the juice located inside a container. Experiment 1 showed ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Manrique HM,Call J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects in conditioning experiments time their conditioned responses relative to the onsets of the conditioned stimuli (CSs). These onsets are temporal landmarks, by reference to which subjects may estimate the location of the unconditioned stimulus (US) in time. In a serial compound conditioning paradigm, a long dur...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Fairhurst S,Gallistel CR,Gibbon J

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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