Visual discrimination, sequential learning and memory retrieval in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti.

abstract：:A hallmark of the human language faculty is the use of syntactic rules. The natural vocalizations of animals are syntactically simple, but several studies indicate that animals can detect and discriminate more complex structures in acoustic stimuli. However, how they discriminate such structures is often not clear. Us...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： van Heijningen CA,Chen J,van Laatum I,van der Hulst B,ten Cate C

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：:When we compare human gestures to those of other apes, it looks at first like there is nothing much to compare at all. In adult humans, gestures are thought to be a window into the thought processes accompanying language, and sign languages are equal to spoken language with all of its features. Some research firmly em...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kersken V,Gómez JC,Liszkowski U,Soldati A,Hobaiter C

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:The trap-tube problem is used to assess whether an individual is able to foresee the outcome of its actions. To solve the task, an animal must use a tool to push a piece of food out of a tube, which has a trap along its length. An animal may learn to avoid the trap through a rule based on associative processes, e.g. u...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tebbich S,Seed AM,Emery NJ,Clayton NS

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Social animals should have plenty of opportunities to learn from conspecifics, but most studies have failed to document social learning in horses. This study investigates whether young Icelandic horses can learn a spatial detour task through observation of a trained demonstrator horse of either the same age (Experimen...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Rørvang MV,Ahrendt LP,Christensen JW

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the cognitive mechanisms underlying animal behavior, and they have become increasingly skillful at adapting methodologies to test multiple species. M...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： MacLean EL,Matthews LJ,Hare BA,Nunn CL,Anderson RC,Aureli F,Brannon EM,Call J,Drea CM,Emery NJ,Haun DB,Herrmann E,Jacobs LF,Platt ML,Rosati AG,Sandel AA,Schroepfer KK,Seed AM,Tan J,van Schaik CP,Wobber V

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:North African desert ants, Cataglyphis, use path integration to calculate a home vector during their foraging trips, constantly informing them about their position relative to the nest. This home vector is also used to find the way back to a productive feeding site the ant has encountered and thus memorized. When the ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pfeffer SE,Bolek S,Wolf H,Wittlinger M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that Carolina chickadees and tufted titmice use a predator's head orientation to determine risk, taking fewer seeds from a feeder if an avian predator model's head is facing the feeder while ignoring the head orientation. In addition to head orientation, eyes are a cue of predator risk. In ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kyle SC

更新日期：2020-11-18 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：:During play with a dog, humans commonly command the dog to engage in particular activities. How effective are commands during play, and do they serve as play signals? To answer this question, I examined commands issued to dogs by 21 familiar and 17 unfamiliar persons who played with a dog, and the dog's responses. Spe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Mitchell RW

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to orient and navigate in space is essential for all animals whose home range is organized around a central point. Because of their small home range compared to vertebrates, central place foraging insects such as ants have for a long time provided a choice model for the study of orientation mechanisms. In ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Gerbier G,Garnier S,Rieu C,Theraulaz G,Fourcassié V

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful navigation within an environment requires that the traveler establish the correct heading--a process referred to as orienting. Many studies have now shown that humans and non-human animals can use the geometric properties of an enclosure to orient. In the present study, two groups of Clark's nutcrackers (Nu...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kelly DM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Piagetian framework has been used by numerous researchers to compare cognitive abilities of diverse species, the system is often criticized as implemented. I examine the various criticisms, suggest ways in which the system can be improved, and argue for the need for descriptive systems such as the Piageti...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pepperberg IM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：: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：:As with humans, vocal communication is an important social tool for nonhuman primates. Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) often produce whistle-like 'phee' calls when they are visually separated from conspecifics. The neural processes specific to phee call perception, however, are largely unknown, despite the possi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kato M,Yokoyama C,Kawasaki A,Takeda C,Koike T,Onoe H,Iriki A

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Instrumental learning guides behavior toward resources. When such resources are no longer available, approach to previously reinforced locations is reduced, a process called extinction. The present experiments are concerned with factors affecting the extinction of acquired behaviors in toads. In previous experiments, ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Puddington MM,Papini MR,Muzio RN

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-control has been shown to be linked with being cooperative and successful in humans and with the g-factor in chimpanzees. As such, it is likely to play an important role in all forms of problem-solving. Self-control, however, does not just vary across individuals but seems also to be dependent on the ecological n...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Range F,Brucks D,Virányi Z

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pictorial representations of three-dimensional objects are often used to investigate animal cognitive abilities; however, investigators rarely evaluate whether the animals conceptualize the two-dimensional image as the object it is intended to represent. We tested for picture recognition in lion-tailed macaques by pre...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Judge PG,Kurdziel LB,Wright RM,Bohrman JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquiring information about stimuli that predict danger, through either direct experience or inference from a social context, is crucial for individuals' ability to generate appropriate behaviors in response to threats. Utilizing a modified demonstrator-observer paradigm (fear conditioning by proxy) that allows for fr...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jones CE,Monfils MH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, Kuroshima and colleagues demonstrated that capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) learned to discriminate between a "knower" who inspected a box for food, and a "guesser" who did not. The aim of the present study was to specify whether the subjects learned a simple conditional discrimination or a causal ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kuroshima H,Fujita K,Adachi I,Iwata K,Fuyuki A

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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