No evidence of morphine analgesia to noxious shock in the shore crab, Carcinus maenas.

abstract：:Feral and laboratory flocks of rock doves (Columba livia ) show a pattern of grouped sequential exploitation when simultaneously presented with two dispersed, depleting patches of seed. This behavior contrasts with the ideal free distribution pattern shown when patches are small and concentrated. Grouped sequential ex...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Perusse D,Lefebvre L

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas many non-human species have been demonstrated to visually complete partly occluded figures, pigeons have been repeatedly failed to do so. We asked whether this failure reflected the pigeons' lack of perceptual process for completion or their decision among completed and non-completed figures. Four pigeons sear...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fujita K,Ushitani T

更新日期：2005-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a vast literature on the behavioural effects of partial reinforcement in Pavlovian conditioning. Compared with animals receiving continuous reinforcement, partially rewarded animals typically show (a) a slower development of the conditioned response (CR) early in training and (b) a higher asymptotic level of ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Anselme P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life cycle of commercially used molluscicidal rhabditid nematodes Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita and entomopathogenic steinernematid nematodes is similar: infective stages carry symbiotic bacteria, which kill their host. Nematodes complete their life cycle feeding on the proliferating symbiont and the host tissue. ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Foltan P,Puza V

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals use cues from their environment to orient in space and to navigate their surroundings. Geometry is a cue whose informational content may originate from the metric properties of a given environment, and its use has been demonstrated in the laboratory in nearly every species of animal tested. However, it is not ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hornsby MAW,Healy SD,Hurly TA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Monty Hall Dilemma (MHD), a contestant makes a guess as to which door conceals a prize. The host then reveals the contents of an unchosen, incorrect door, and then gives the contestant a choice of sticking with the initial guess or switching to the remaining door. Given certain crucial assumptions, the rational...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Granberg D

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voluntary exercise by rats running in a freely rotating wheel (free wheel) produces conditioned taste avoidance (CTA) of a flavored solution consumed before running [e.g., Lett, B.T., Grant, V.L., 1996. Wheel running induces conditioned taste aversion in rats trained while hungry and thirsty. Physiol. Behav. 59, 699-7...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Forristall JR,Hookey BL,Grant VL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of interest in the cultural transmission of animal behaviour, observational learning has not previously been demonstrated in Japanese quail. In the present experiment three groups of 10 quail were trained to peck for reinforcement under discriminative stimulus control. The group which was allowed to observe p...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sanavio E,Savardi U

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how differential payoffs affect the temporal discrimination of humans. In a temporal bisection task, participants learned to make one response after a short sample and another after a long sample. When presented with a range of intermediate samples, the proportion of responses fitted well a Gaussian-li...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cambraia R,Bugallo M,Vasconcelos M,Machado A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norway rat subjects were exposed for either 3 or 10 days to conspecific demonstrators eating a cinnamon-flavoured, protein-deficient diet. While in contact with their demonstrators, and for several days thereafter, subjects were offered a choice between the cinnamon-flavoured, protein-deficient diet that their demonst...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galef BG Jr,Whiskin EE

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Stereotypies often develop in environments that independent evidence shows cause poor welfare. Thus the development od stereotypies indicates that well-being has probably been poor, with the animal motivated to show a behaviour pattern that it could not perform normally or to completion. The continued performance of s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mason GJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this otherwise insightful line of investigation, some aspects of rules of thumb (RoT) remain underspecified: their evolution and function, how they are selected for a task, how they are learned, and the dependence of their apparent simplicity on their embodiment and context. Theories of operant and respondent condi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sanabria F,Killeen PR

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic of a series of responses for four pigeons is analyzed using a discrete fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a measure of behavior's predictability. FFTs of moment-to-moment response rates reliably exhibited a continuous distribution for three of the four birds, with most of the power falling in the low frequen...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Horner JM

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaponry and color badges are commonly theorized to function as visual signals of aggressiveness or fighting ability. However, few studies have supported a signaling function of weaponry, and the role of color in invertebrate competitive interactions remains virtually unexplored. Jumping spiders (Salticidae) make exce...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tedore C,Johnsen S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extinction of learning is a common, yet under-reported limitation of judgment bias testing methods Repeated exposure to the ambiguous probe of a judgment bias paradigm encourages the animal to cease display of the required behaviours. However, there remains a need to repeatedly test animals to achieve statistical powe...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barker TH,Howarth GS,Whittaker AL

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied seasonal habitat use of female, mixed-sex and male groups in a free-ranging mouflon (Ovis gmelini) population. The three group types differed in the use of the five different habitats (forests, broom moorlands, heather moorlands, meadows and rocky areas) only in spring (lambing period) and in autumn (ruttin...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cransac N,Hewison AJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Fear reactions of ewes towards a human, a human-like model or a control (plastic cylinder 1.95 m high) were studied using a test previously designed and validated, in which 16 behavioural parameters have been interpreted as indicators of fear (e.g. a relatively long time spent away from the stimulus) or absence of fea...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bouissou MF,Vandenheede M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research in the behavioral decision making literature has demonstrated that humans hyperbolically discount the subjective value of options as the number of options increases (Reed et al., 2012). These findings provide a cognitive-behavioral synthesis of the "choice overload" phenomenon, also known as the "parad...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kaplan BA,Reed DD

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of animal-like autonomous robots might offer new possibilities in the study of animal interactions, if the subject recognises it as a social partner. In this paper we investigate whether AIBO, a dog-like robot of the Sony Corp. can be used for this purpose. Twenty-four adult and sixteen 4-5 months old pet dogs...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kubinyi E,Miklósi A,Kaplan F,Gácsi M,Topál J,Csányi V

更新日期：2004-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyse fear reactions of 18 adult Romanov ewes individually confronted with 3 visual stimuli, namely pictures of a human, of a sheep or of a traffic cone (control). These pictures were projected in real size on a wall of the test pen by means of a slide projector. Twenty-six behavioural i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vandenheede M,Bouissou MF

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and interspecific agonistic encounters in Long-Evans and field-trapped Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus showed a consistency in the form and character of attack and defensive behaviors. Colony alpha males exhibited high levels of lateral attack, on-top, and chasing behaviors which resulted in a high percenta...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Takahashi LK,Blanchard RJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates perceive many object features through vision and touch. To date, little is known on how the synergy of these two sensory modalities contributes to enhance object recognition. Here, we investigated in capuchin monkeys (N = 12) whether manipulating objects and retaining tactile information enhanced visual recog...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carducci P,Squillace V,Manzi G,Truppa V

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：: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：:Hungry rats were trained to press one lever for a sucrose solution and another for food pellets on a concurrent schedule. The contingency between lever pressing and reinforcement was then reduced by delivering either free sucrose solution or free food pellets. The non-contingent schedule resulted in a greater reductio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dickinson A,Mulatero CW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background matching is an important way to camouflage and is widespread among animals. In the field, however, few studies have addressed background matching, and there has been no reported camouflage efficiency in freshwater turtles. Background matching and camouflage efficiency of the four-eyed turtle, Sacalia quadri...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Xiao F,Yang C,Shi H,Wang J,Sun L,Lin L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biparental species, each parent represents a semi-independent source of variable caregiving. The nature of care may differ between parents, and the type of care offspring seek is likely to change across development. We asked if caregiving differed between prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) mothers and fathers, and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Finton CJ,Ophir AG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research assessed adduction involving derived stimulus relations as a function of environmental complexity. In Group CA, four college students were trained with arbitrary-matching-to-sample discriminations that could have established four, 3-member stimulus classes. In Group EA, four other students were tr...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rippy SM,Doughty AH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00