Quantity matching by an orangutan (Pongo abelii).

abstract：:The present work is part of a decade-long study on the spontaneous use of stones for cracking hard-shelled nuts by a semi-free-ranging group of brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Nutcracking events are frequently watched by other individuals--usually younger, less proficient, and that are well tolerated to the poi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ottoni EB,de Resende BD,Izar P

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：: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：:Dogs enrolled in a previous study were assessed two years later for reliability of their local/global preference in a discrimination test with the same hierarchical stimuli used in the previous study (Experiment 1) and with a novel stimulus (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, dogs easily re-learned to discriminate the po...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Mongillo P,Pitteri E,Sambugaro P,Carnier P,Marinelli L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans readily group component elements into a coherent perceptual whole and perceive the global form of visual patterns in priority over local features, which stands in contrast to at least some data from the animal literature, suggesting possible species differences in perceptual processes. In this study, chimpanzee...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Martin-Malivel J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of novel behavior is a multilayered phenomenon that comprehends distinct processes. One such process is known as insightful problem solving. "Insight" can be explained as the spontaneous interconnection of previously acquired behavioral repertoires. The objective of this study was to investigate: (1) whe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Neves Filho HB,de Carvalho Neto MB,Taytelbaum GP,Malheiros RD,Knaus YC

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Sound categorisation plays a crucial role for processing ecological and social stimuli in a species' natural environment. To explore the discrimination and evaluation of sound stimuli in human babies and nonhuman primates, a reciprocal habituation-dishabituation paradigm has been successfully introduced into auditory ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Konerding WS,Brunke J,Schehka S,Zimmermann E

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Urban animals and birds in particular are able to cope with diverse novel threats in a city environment such as avoiding novel, unfamiliar predators. Predator avoidance often includes alarm signals that can be used also by hetero-specifics, which is mainly the case in mixed-species flocks. It can also occur when speci...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bílá K,Beránková J,Veselý P,Bugnyar T,Schwab C

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The ability of ungulates to discriminate among vegetation patches depends largely on the senses of vision, olfaction, tactility, and gustation. However, little is known about how ungulates rely on the respective senses in response to varying patch characteristics. This study aimed to evaluate how relative importance o...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Hirata M,Kusatake N

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild animals face the challenge of locating feeding sites distributed across broad spatial and temporal scales. Spatial memory allows animals to find a goal, such as a productive feeding patch, even when there are no goal-specific sensory cues available. Because there is little experimental information on learning and...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lührs ML,Dammhahn M,Kappeler PM,Fichtel C

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Recent evidence for different tool kits, proposed to be based upon culture-like transmission, have been observed across different chimpanzee communities across Western Africa. In light of these findings, the reported failures by seven captive juvenile chimpanzees tested with 27 tool use tasks (Povinelli 2000) seem eni...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Furlong EE,Boose KJ,Boysen ST

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:Inequity aversion refers to an attempt to reduce a perceived discrepancy between one's own input and output ratio (i.e. ratio between work invested and rewards obtained) and that of others. It has been proposed that inequity aversion might also play a role in the decision-making process of other animals. One issue, ho...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ostojić L,Clayton NS

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:We investigated the behavioural and cognitive development of a captive male infant chimpanzee, Ayumu, raised by his mother, Ai. Here we report Ayumu's achievements up to the age of 2 years and 3 months, in the context of complex computer-controlled tasks. From soon after birth, Ayumu had been present during an experim...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sousa C,Okamoto S,Matsuzawa T

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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