Is acoustic evaluation in a non-primate mammal, the tree shrew, affected by context?

abstract：:While the effects of lead pollution have been well studied in vertebrates, it is unclear to what extent lead may negatively affect insect cognition. Lead pollution in soils can elevate lead in plant tissues, suggesting it could negatively affect neural development of insect herbivores. We used the cabbage white butter...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Philips KH,Kobiela ME,Snell-Rood EC

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Prosociality and acts of altruism are defined as behaviours which benefit another with either no gain or some immediate cost to the self. To understand the evolutionary origins of these behaviours, in recent years, studies have extended to primate species; however, studies on non-primates are still scarce. In light of...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Marshall-Pescini S,Dale R,Quervel-Chaumette M,Range F

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True tool use has been documented in some bird species, but to our knowledge, it has not been shown in woodpeckers. Here, we investigated the ability of Picoides major to open nuts of Juglans mandshurica by consistently inserting walnuts between tree branches in a specific position that facilitated nut opening. As see...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Yi X,Steele MA,Shen Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are simple co-occurrences as well as functional relationships between events. One may assume that animals detect and use causation rather than mere co-variation. However, understanding causation often requires concepts of hidden forces. In string pulling, obstacles may hamper the access to food. Here, I studied ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pfuhl G

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:Rats, birds or fish trained to find a reward in one corner of a small enclosure tend to learn the location of the reward using both nearby visual features and the geometric relationships of corners and walls. Because these studies are conducted under laboratory and thereby unnatural conditions, we sought to determine ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Hurly TA,Fox TA,Zwueste DM,Healy SD

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:The ability to learn through imitation is thought to be the basis of cultural transmission and was long considered a distinctive characteristic of humans. There is now evidence that both mammals and birds are capable of imitation. However, nothing is known about these abilities in the third amniotic class-reptiles. He...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kis A,Huber L,Wilkinson A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous conditioning experiments training domestic chickens to magnetic directions, a brown strain solved the task, whereas a white strain seemed unable to do so (Freire et al. Anim Cogn 11:547-552, 2008). To test whether this was possibly caused by loss of magnetic compass orientation in the white chickens, we an...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Denzau S,Niessner C,Wiltschko R,Wiltschko W

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imitation can be defined as the copying of behavior. To a biologist, interest in imitation is focused on its adaptive value for the survival of the organism, but to a psychologist, the mechanisms responsible for imitation are the most interesting. For psychologists, the most important cases of imitation are those that...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Zentall TR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overmarking occurs when one individual places its scent mark directly on top of the scent mark of another individual. Although it is almost ubiquitous among terrestrial mammals, we know little about the function of overmarking. In addition, almost all studies on mammalian overmarking behaviour dealt with adult individ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pluháček J,Tučková V,King SRB,Šárová R

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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：:Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates, and rays) have been hypothesized to use the geomagnetic field as a cue for orienting and navigating across a wide range of spatial scales. Magnetoreception has been demonstrated in many invertebrate and vertebrate taxa, including elasmobranchs, but this sensory modality and the cog...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Newton KC,Kajiura SM

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:In Experiment 1 each rat received two different fixed series of three trials each. The unconditioned stimulus occurred on Trial 1 of one series and on Trial 3 of the other series, all other trials being nonreinforced. Previous Pavlovian investigations have shown that rats can remember the immediately prior reward outc...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Martins AP,Miller RM,Capaldi EJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because most learning studies in cephalopods have been performed on octopods, it remains unclear whether such abilities are specific to octopus, or whether they correlate with having a larger and more centrally organized brain. To investigate associative learning in a different cephalopod, six sexually mature cuttlefi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Cole PD,Adamo SA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some animals have the cognitive capacity to differentiate between different species of predators and generate different alarm calls in response. However, the presence of any addition information that might be encoded into alarm calls has been largely unexplored. In the present study, three similar-sized human females ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Slobodchikoff CN,Paseka A,Verdolin JL

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:The most robust sex differences in cognition across polygynous mammalian species are the sex-specific patterns of the use of spatial cues during encoding and orientation. In laboratory rats, wild rodents, and humans, females orient preferentially to the features and arrangement of local landmarks, while males preferen...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bettis TJ,Jacobs LF

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One model of signal evolution is based on the notion that behaviours become increasingly detached from their original biological functions to obtain a communicative value. Selection may not always favour the evolution of such transitions, for instance, if signalling is costly due to predators usurping signal productio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dahl CD,Wyss C,Zuberbühler K,Bachmann I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When humans process visual stimuli, global information often takes precedence over local information. In contrast, some recent studies have pointed to a local precedence effect in both pigeons and nonhuman primates. In the experiment reported here, we compared the speed of acquisition of two different categorizations ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Goto K,Wills AJ,Lea SE

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：:When trained in a rectangular arena, some research has suggested that rats are guided by local features rather than overall boundary geometry. We explored this hypothesis using the terrestrial toad, Rhinella arenarum, as a comparative contrast. In two experiments, toads were trained to find a water-reward goal locatio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sotelo MI,Alcalá JA,Bingman VP,Muzio RN

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:The ability to compute probability, previously shown in nonverbal infants, apes, and monkeys, was examined in three experiments with pigeons. After responding to individually presented keys in an operant chamber that delivered reinforcement with varying probabilities, pigeons chose between these keys on probe trials. ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Roberts WA,MacDonald H,Lo KH

更新日期：2018-07-01 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