Decision processes in choice overload: a product of delay and probability discounting?

abstract：:Discounting occurs when the subjective value of an outcome decreases because its delivery is either delayed or uncertain. Discounting has been widely studied because of its ubiquitous nature. Research from our laboratory has demonstrated that rates of discounting are systematically altered by several different factors...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weatherly JN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contingency, and more particularly temporal contingency, has often figured in thinking about the nature of learning. However, it has never been formally defined in such a way as to make it a measure that can be applied to most animal learning protocols. We use elementary information theory to define contingency in suc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gallistel CR,Craig AR,Shahan TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Although contexts play many roles during training and also during testing, over the last four decades theories of learning have predominantly focused on one or the other of the two families of functions served by contexts. In this selective review, we summarize recent data concerning these two functions and their inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Urcelay GP,Miller RR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation of reproductive success, an important determinant of the opportunity for sexual selection, is an outcome of competition within one sex for mating with members of the other sex. In promiscuous species, males typically compete for access to females, and their reproductive strategies are strongly related to the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Borkowska A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence of previously reinforced responding was investigated in male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). Swimming through a ring produced 15-s mirror presentations according to, with different fish, either a fixed-ratio 1 or a variable-interval 60-s schedule of reinforcement. When responding was stable, a diff...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva SP,Cançado CR,Lattal KA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cognitive ability in farm animals are valuable, not only because they provide indicators of the commonality of comparative influence, but understanding farm animal cognition may also aid in management and treatment procedures. Here, eight dwarf goats (Capra hircus) learned a series of 10 visual four-choice ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Langbein J,Siebert K,Nuernberg G

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：: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：:Recourse to anthropomorphism, folk psychology, or discontinuist thought, in order to take into account the richness of animal cognitive processes and of their evolution, is of some heuristic value. However, in the absence of recognised criteria allowing the hypothesised behavioural discontinuities between species to b...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vidal JM,Vancassel M,Quris R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of cue competition on timing in both overshadowing and blocking operant procedures with pigeons. A white center key delivered reward when pecked 30s after a red or green sidekey was presented and 10s after presentation of the alternate color on the other sidekey. In Experiment 1, key presentatio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： McMillan N,Roberts WA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice were trained on simultaneous discrimination of paintings with multiple exemplars, using an operant chamber with a touch screen. The number of exemplars was successively increased up to six. Those mice trained in Kandinsky/Mondrian discrimination showed improved learning and generalization, whereas those t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Watanabe S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to an infant crying with an increase in cortisol level and heightened alertness, a response interpreted as emotional contagion, a primitive form of empathy. Previous results are mixed when examining whether dogs might respond similarly to human distress. We examined whether domestic dogs, which have a l...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Yong MH,Ruffman T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paw use on three tasks in 53 domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) was studied to determine whether the animals exhibited a significant paw preference, and, if so, to explore the direction and strength of the dogs' preferred paw use, both within, and between, tasks. The influence of the dogs' sex on their paw preferences w...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wells DL

更新日期：2003-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment tested the hypothesis that changes in rate of reinforcement affect the rate of an internal pacemaker as suggested by the Behavioral Theory of Timing (BeT: Killeen and Fetterman, 1988). Pigeons were trained to discriminate durations of 10 s and 20 s, and then exposed to higher or lower rates of freely d...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Morgan L,Killeen PR,Fetterman JG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel delayed conditional discrimination procedure was used successfully to investigate some factors affecting pigeons' tracking of visual stimuli. Trials began with the brief illumination of one of the keys (randomly selected) from the left- or right-hand column of a three by three matrix of pecking keys. Then the ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wilkie DM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms living at high densities may be forced to engage in conflict for access to resources such as food or shelter. When these resources are limited, the outcome of interactions may have important fitness implications. We investigated the behavioural interactions of the invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus)...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Maytin AK,Ligocki IY

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds overwintering at northern latitudes face challenging environments in which refined cognitive and behavioural responses to environmental stimuli could be a benefit. Populations of the same species from different latitudes have been shown to differ in their cognitive and behavioural responses, and these difference...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Martin RJ,Sherry DF

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Carnivora, play behaviour is usually made up of motor patterns characteristic of predatory, agonistic and courtship behaviour. Domestic dogs are unusual in that play is routinely performed by adults, both socially, with conspecifics and with humans, and also asocially, with objects. This enhanced playfulness...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bradshaw JW,Pullen AJ,Rooney NJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows longitudinal development of human-dog interactions in a guide dog raising program. Social play interactions between potential guide dogs for the blind (puppies) and their adult female raisers (PWs) were videotaped at home during the period from two months to 11 or 12 months of the puppies' age. The pu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Koda N

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was designed to investigate the effects of peripheral anosmia on the display of lordosis behaviour in orchidectomized rats primed with oestradiol benzoate and progesterone. Peripheral anosmia was induced by intranasal Zn SO4 application in rats trained to locate a food pellet buried under shavings. T...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chateau D,Aron C

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I investigated the effect of a winning or losing experience on the outcome of an individual's next aggressive encounter among captive American Goldfinches (Carduelis tristis ). Aggressive encounters occurring over access to a feeder were videotaped during the winter of 1985-1986. Both dominants and subordinates were m...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Popp JW

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subterranean termites live underground and build tunnel networks to obtain food and nesting space. After obtaining food, termites return to their nests to transfer it. The efficiency of termite movement through the tunnels is directly connected to their survival. Tunnels should therefore be optimized to ensure highly ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sim S,Kang SH,Lee SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 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 effects of ectopic pituitary isografts on response to novelty were studied in adult Snell Dwarf mice. Because of anterohypophyseal deficiency, these animals exhibit dwarfism, sterility and marked neurochemical and behavioural deficits. When given the opportunity to move around freely in simultaneously presented no...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bouchon R,Misslin R,Vogel E,Ropartz P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to study the effect of early weaning on alimentary preference for the macronutrients protein, carbohydrate and fat in adult rats. Male Wistar rat pups were weaned by separation from the mother at 15 (D15) or 30 (D30) days old. Body weight and food intake were measured every 30 days until...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： dos Santos Oliveira L,de Lima DP,da Silva AA,da Silva MC,de Souza SL,Manhães-de-Castro R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In temperate songbirds, song has traditionally been considered a vocalization mainly produced by males. However, in many temperate species, it is now recognized that both males and females produce song. The function and structure of male black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee song have been well-studied...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hahn AH,Krysler A,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deception, a basic and pervasive biological phenomenon, takes many forms, variously referred to as mimicry, trickery, seduction, pretense, feigning, masquerading, impersonation, distraction, or false promises, and these share certain common distinguishing behavioral elements that permit them to be classified into cate...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mechner F

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:The serial order in which events occur can be a signal for different outcomes and therefore might be a determinant of how an animal should respond. In this report, we propose a novel design for studying serial order learning in Pavlovian conditioning. In both Experiments 1a and 1b, hungry rats were trained with succes...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Murphy RA,Mondragón E,Murphy VA,Fouquet N

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00