Rule learning by zebra finches in an artificial grammar learning task: which rule?

abstract：:Numerosity illusions emerge when the stimuli in one set are overestimated or underestimated relative to the number (or quantity) of stimuli in another set. In the case of multi-item arrays, individual items that form a better Gestalt are more readily grouped, leading to overestimation by human adults and children. As ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Parrish AE,Beran MJ,Agrillo C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the high variability in predation risk through space and time, prey have to continuously update information about the risk level posed by predators. Despite numerous studies focusing on temporal risk assessment, we know very little about how individuals deal with information regarding changes in risk level of a...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ferrari MC,Chivers DP

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:This study describes how three individual fish, Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.), developed a novel behaviour and learnt to use a dorsally attached external tag to activate a self-feeder. This behaviour was repeated up to several hundred times, and over time these fish fine-tuned the behaviour and made a series of goal-...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Millot S,Nilsson J,Fosseidengen JE,Bégout ML,Fernö A,Braithwaite VA,Kristiansen TS

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Theory and empirical findings predict that individuals in a negative affective state are more sensitive to unexpected reward loss and less sensitive to unexpected reward gain compared to individuals in a neutral or positive affective state. We explore the use of sensitivity to reward shifts measured during successive ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tan SLT,Handasyde KA,Rault JL,Mendl M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Pigeons given a simultaneous spatial discrimination reversal, in which a single reversal occurs at the midpoint of each session, consistently show anticipation prior to the reversal as well as perseveration after the reversal, suggesting that they use a less effective cue (time or trial number into the session) than w...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Laude JR,Pattison KF,Rayburn-Reeves RM,Michler DM,Zentall TR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic 3-D virtual environment was constructed for humans as an open-field analogue of Blaisdell and Cook's (2005) pigeon foraging task to determine if humans, like pigeons, were capable of integrating separate spatial maps. Participants used keyboard keys and a mouse to search for a hidden goal in a 4x4 grid of ra...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sturz BR,Bodily KD,Katz JS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there is still no consensus about whether animals can ascribe mental states (Theory of Mind) to themselves and others. Showing animals can respond to cues that indicate whether another has visual access to a target or not, and that they are able to use this information as a basis for whom to rely on as an i...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Catala A,Mang B,Wallis L,Huber L

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bees, wasps and ants--so-called central-place foragers--need potent homing strategies to return to their nest. Path integration and view-based landmark guidance are the key strategies for the ants' navigation. For instance, they memorise different views in a sequence (sequential memory) but also have a step counter th...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Schwarz S,Cheng K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the animal kingdom, antipredator mechanisms are an evolutionary driving force to enable the survival of species classified as prey. Information regarding a predator's location can be determined through chemosensory cues from urine, faeces, visual and/or acoustic signals and anal gland secretions; and in sev...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Samuel L,Arnesen C,Zedrosser A,Rosell F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gleaning information is a way for foragers to adjust their behavior in order to maximize their fitness. Information decreases the uncertainty about the environment and could help foragers to accurately estimate environmental characteristics. In a patchy resource, information sampled during previous patch visits is eff...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Louâpre P,Pierre JS

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:This study investigated the effects of both environmental enrichment and individual behavioural characteristics on spatial cognitive capabilities of pigs, using a novel latent spatial learning paradigm based on Tolman's detour experiments (1948). Pigs were housed either in 'barren' pens or in pens enriched with straw ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jansen J,Bolhuis JE,Schouten WG,Spruijt BM,Wiegant VM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some nonhuman species demonstrate metamemory, the ability to monitor and control memory. Here, we identify memory signals that control metamemory judgments in rhesus monkeys by directly comparing performance in two metamemory paradigms while holding the availability of one memory signal constant and manipulating anoth...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Brown EK,Basile BM,Templer VL,Hampton RR

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue whether non-human primates have other-regarding preference and/or inequity aversion has been under debate. We investigated whether tufted capuchin monkeys are sensitive to others' reward in various experimental food sharing settings. Two monkeys faced each other. The operator monkey chose one of two food con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takimoto A,Kuroshima H,Fujita K

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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：:In many species, males and females have different reproductive roles and/or differ in their ecological niche. Since in these cases the two sexes often face different cognitive challenges, selection may promote some degree of cognitive differentiation, an issue that has received relatively little attention so far. We i...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lucon-Xiccato T,Bisazza A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs' production of referential communicative signals, i.e., showing, has gained increasing scientific interest over the last years. In this paper, we investigate whether shared information about the present and the past affects success and form of dog-human interactions. Second, in the context of showing, owners have...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Henschel M,Winters J,Müller TF,Bräuer J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to discriminate between different quantities is widespread throughout the animal kingdom, and the underlying mechanisms of quantity discrimination are currently intensely discussed. In contrast, questions elucidating the limits of quantity estimation received rather little attention so far. Here, we examin...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Mehlis M,Thünken T,Bakker TC,Frommen JG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cuttlefish have a large repertoire of body patterns that are used for camouflage and interspecific signaling. Intraspecific signaling by male cuttlefish has been well documented but studies on signaling by females are lacking. We found that females displayed a newly described body pattern termed Splotch toward their m...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Palmer ME,Calvé MR,Adamo SA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the five-term, transitive inference task used with animals, pigeons are trained on four simultaneous discrimination premise pairs: A + B -, B + C -, C + D -, D + E -. Typically, when tested with the BD pair, most pigeons show a transitive inference effect, choosing B over D. Two non-inferential hypotheses have been...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Zentall TR,Peng D,Miles L

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：: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