Disruptive effects of prefeeding and haloperidol administration on multiple measures of food-maintained behavior in rats.

abstract：:The present study investigated whether rats' rates of licking or pressing a lever for 1% liquid sucrose delivered by a continuous reinforcement schedule would decrease (contrast) or increase (induction) when the upcoming period would allow access to 32% sucrose and whether such changes would be influenced by how long ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weatherly JN,Nurnberger JT,Arthur EI,King BM

更新日期：2005-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural cycles of light and darkness shift the balance of risks and gains for animals across space and time. Entrainment to photic cycles allows animals to spatiotemporally adapt their behavioural and physiological processes in line with interplaying ecological factors, such as temperature, foraging efficiency and pre...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hart EE,Fennessy J,Hauenstein S,Ciuti S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicks were trained to peck on a small coloured (red or green) box for food reinforcement. They were then presented with one box identical to that used during training (familiar) and one of a different colour (unfamiliar). Food reinforcement was delivered for pecking either box, and the right-left position of the two ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Regolin L,Vallortigara G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird songs have evolved under sexual selection pressure. Songs include multiple features that are subject to female preference, but recent comparative research has indicated evolutionary tradeoffs between song performance and complexity in some species. Trill, a repetition of the same sound, is a performance-related s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kagawa H,Soma M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory decay is rapid at first and slower later-a feature that accounts for Jost's memory law: that old memories gain on newer ones with lapse of time. The rate-sensitive property of habituation-that recovery after spaced stimuli may be slower than after massed-provides a clue to the dynamics of memory decay. Rate-sen...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Staddon JE,Chelaru IM,Higa JJ

更新日期：2002-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Object exploration is an increasingly popular experimental paradigm in behavioral sciences. We have begun a series of studies with mice specifically looking at the parameters that influence behaviors in this test. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of object type on performance in the object explor...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Heyser CJ,Chemero A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that a relatively small number of perceptual skills underlie human perception of music and speech. Humans and songbirds share a number of features in the development of their auditory communication systems. These similarities invite comparisons between species in their auditory perceptual skills. Here, we s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weisman R,Hoeschele M,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In social species such as house mouse, being dominant is vital. Determination of dominance may start early in life and vary during ontogeny. We asked whether pre-pubertal and adolescent behaviour predicts the rank a male mouse finally obtains. Moreover, we asked how dominant vs. subordinate adults differ in exploratio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hiadlovská Z,Hamplová P,Berchová Bímová K,Macholán M,Vošlajerová Bímová B

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate models for animal feeding behaviour, with the aim of improving understanding of how animals organise their behaviour in the short term. We consider three classes of model: hidden Markov, latent Gaussian and semi-Markov. Each can predict the typical 'clustered' feeding behaviour that is generally observe...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Allcroft DJ,Tolkamp BJ,Glasbey CA,Kyriazakis I

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the serial chaining task, participants are required to produce a sequence of responses to stimuli in the correct order, and sometimes must determine the sequence at trial outset if stimuli are masked after the first response is made. Similarly, the Simon memory span task presents a participant with a sequence of co...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Parrish AE,Perdue BM,Kelly AJ,Beran MJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For drug-dependent individuals, drugs of abuse that are delayed in time are discounted more steeply than money delayed in time in a hypothetical choice task. The reasons for this finding are not clear. This study examined whether steep discounting of drugs relative to money might be related to the function of drugs as...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Odum AL,Rainaud CP

更新日期：2003-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We trained rats in a context discrimination paradigm by pairing a sucrose solution with lithium chloride in one context (conditioning context) and simple exposure to the same fluid in a second (neutral) context to establish a context-dependent aversion to the conditioned fluid. We then investigated whether transfer of...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Iguchi Y,Fukumoto K,Sawa K,Ishii K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of environment on the maturation of sand digging behaviour in cuttlefish was studied. Sand digging behaviour of cuttlefish individually reared on sand was daily observed in their rearing tanks (first study). Other cuttlefish were individually reared from hatching to 2 weeks of life in different conditions (...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Poirier R,Chichery R,Dickel L

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Although natural selection may favour the evolution of an optimal brood size, unpredictable environmental factors can intervene to render the brood either considerably larger or smaller than this optimum. The question therefore arises as to how parents should respond to unusually large or small litters. Solutions to t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mendl M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen Göttingen minipigs were trained on two different visually guided conditional associative tasks. In a spatial conditional task, a black stimulus signalled that a response to the left was correct, and a white stimulus signalled that a response to the right was correct. In a conditional go/no-go task, a blue sti...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Moustgaard A,Arnfred SM,Lind NM,Hemmingsen R,Hansen AK

更新日期：2005-01-31 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：:Nociception is the ability to encode and perceive harmful stimuli and allows for a rapid reflexive withdrawal. In some species, nociception might be accompanied by a pain experience, which is a negative feeling that allows for longer-term changes in behaviour. Different types of stimuli may affect nociceptors, but in ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Elwood RW,Dalton N,Riddell G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of motivation have been traditionally classified along the lines of homeostatic/ priming dichotomies using a diversity of definitions and names. Here, similar classification is used to describe a model of behaviour made of two well-defined mechanisms connected in series representing priming and homeostasis, and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kadri FL,Duncan IJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaklings serve as a buffer, allowing an increase in the overall prospect of offspring survival. Whereas birds are able to directly determine which offspring to invest in via selective feeding, multiparous mammals have fewer methods of excluding weaklings from milk provision. In pigs the maternal investment strategy i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Skok J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed reward discounting (DRD) is a behavioral economic measure of impulsivity, reflecting how rapidly a reward loses value based on its temporal distance. In humans, more impulsive DRD is associated with susceptibility to a number of psychiatric diseases (e.g., addiction, ADHD), health outcomes (e.g., obesity), and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gray JC,Sanchez-Roige S,de Wit H,MacKillop J,Palmer AA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bumble bees were trained to discriminate between two visual patterns, one of which was rewarding (S+) and one of which was unrewarding (S-). Subsequently, they were tested for discrimination between two non-rewarding patterns: the top halves of the training patterns, the bottom halves or the side halves. Three conditi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Thivierge J,Plowright C,Chan T

更新日期：2002-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The influences of the mu blocker naloxone and the novel opioid delta receptor antagonist ICI, 154, 129 on videotaped encounters between individually-housed, male Swiss mice and anosmic male 'standard opponents' were assessed using a variety of ethological analyses. The effects of drugs were studied on individual eleme...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Brain PF,Brain S,Benton D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four rats obtained food on fixed-time (FT) 1-, 4-, and 16-min schedules. During FT schedules, a lever press produced a timeout period during which food could not be delivered. When timeout was in effect, a lever press ended the timeout period and reinstated the FT schedule. In different conditions, the timing of the F...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lydersen T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pigeons were exposed to various fixed-interval (FI) 30-s conditions which included a standard FI30-s condition. In all remaining conditions, a red "start" key light began the interval. Completion of various fixed ratios (FR) on the start key lit a green "work" key light. In Experiment 1, one peck on the start key...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rutter S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dog cognition research tends to rely on behavioural response, which can be confounded by obedience or motivation, as the primary means of indexing dog cognitive abilities. A physiological method of measuring dog cognitive processing would be instructive and could complement behavioural response. Electroencephalogram (...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Howell TJ,Conduit R,Toukhsati S,Bennett P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals foraging in heterogeneous environments benefit from information on local resource density because it allows allocation of foraging effort to rich patches. In foraging groups, this information may be obtained by individuals through sampling or by observing the foraging behaviour of group members. We studied the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stenberg M,Persson A

更新日期：2005-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term (within-session) and long-term (between-session) habituation of exploratory behavior was studied in rats, hamsters and gerbils. Subjects were observed in an open field containing four different objects during three 15-min sessions with an 8-14 h interval between each session. Their exploratory activity was ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Poucet B,Durup M,Thinus-Blanc C

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambient temperature and air pressure are relevant stimuli that can elicit hormonal responses in alignment with adjusting individuals' physiology and behaviour. This study investigated possible changes in corticosterone (C) and testosterone (T) and contingencies with behaviour in response to ambient temperature and air...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dorn S,Wascher CA,Möstl E,Kotrschal K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a promising model organism for affective or cognitive neuroscience research, and may be useful to study the interplay between memory and anxiety-related states. To assess the effects of acute psychological stress on spatial and cued memory, adult zebrafish were trained in an ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gaikwad S,Stewart A,Hart P,Wong K,Piet V,Cachat J,Kalueff AV

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cope with the variable environment, animals are continuously required to learn novel behaviours or, in certain cases, to inhibit automatic and previously learned behaviours. Traditionally, inhibition has been regarded as cognitively demanding and studied mostly in primates, other mammals and birds, using laboratory...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lucon-Xiccato T,Bertolucci C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00