Agonistic interactions and exploitation of limited food sources in Blattella germanica (L.).

abstract：:Prey species modify their behaviors in response to predation risks to minimize their vulnerability and enhance their survival. When a predation risk arises, gregarious, open-habitat-dwelling ungulates usually increase their vigilance rate and enlarge their herd sizes, which are the two antipredator responses that are ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Blank DA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preexposures to a punctate stimulus or to an external context were examined for their effect on the competition for associative strength between context and stimulus in subsequent aversive classical conditioning. Using rats as subjects and freezing as the index of conditioned responding, Experiment 1 showed that preex...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Maes JH,Vossen JM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When competing for mates, males typically exhibit higher rates of intrasexual aggression and courtship than females. Operational sex ratio, represented here by adult sex ratio (ASR) as a proxy, is likely the best predictor of this competition, which typically increases between members of one sex as members of the oppo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chuard PJC,Brown GE,Grant JWA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to investigate whether and how pre-exposure to an object affects subsequent filial imprinting to that object. In Experiment 1 junglefowl chicks (Gallus gallus spadiceus) were first exposed to either a red object alone (control group), or a red and a yellow object simultaneously (experim...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： van Kampen HS,de Vos GJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of animal timing often assume the existence of a pacemaker whose variance is produced by a Poisson process. Later stages in these models typically include an accumulator, additional sources of variance, and a process in which the accumulated value is compared to reference memory. Together, these stages produce ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Reid AK,Allen DL

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:In a bidirectional control procedure, rats had their first opportunity to push a joystick immediately after observing, from an adjacent compartment, the joystick moving 50 times either to the right or to the left, with each movement signalling the delivery of inaccessible food. Half of these animals observed the joyst...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Heyes CM,Jaldow E,Nokes T,Dawson GR

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:The present study examined sex differences in the responses of domestic chicks to novelty and exposure to a startling stimulus. In the first experiment, 7-day-old male and female chicks were placed individually in a novel environment for 10-min periods. After 5 min, half of the chicks were exposed to a loud bell. Male...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jones RB

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive evolution can be studied at several different levels, ranging from complex societies of interdependent persons to the DNA molecules coding for enzymes that synthesize neurotransmitter molecules. Genetic models of cognitive evolution can be fairly evaluated only if they involve one or two genetic loci, maybe ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wahlsten D

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions/situations have dramatic influences on motivation. Creating animal models examining these influences promotes a better understanding of the psychological and biological underpinnings of social motivation. Rodents are sensitive to social history/experience during associative conditioning and food-sh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Douglas HM,Halverstadt BA,Reinhart-Anez P,Webber ES,Cromwell HC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this preliminary study defense behaviour patterns (fear responses) are described in two closely related, behaviourally different inbred labyrinth fish subspecies and in their F1 generation. The subspecies M. opercularis (characterized briefly by "active escape") and M. opercularis concolor (characterized by "passiv...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vadász C,Kiss B,Csányi V

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has begun to examine how individuals discount delayed sex. However, these tasks have not evaluated the dimension of sexual behavior associated with promiscuity (i.e., choices between partners). The current study assessed choices between hypothetical sexual partners within a delay discounting paradigm. Partici...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jarmolowicz DP,Lemley SM,Asmussen L,Reed DD

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Four pigeons were trained to peck a key under different values of a temporally defined independent variable (T) and different probabilities of reinforcement (p). Parameter T is a fixed repeating time cycle and p the probability of reinforcement for the first response of each cycle T. Two dependent variables were used:...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dembo M,De Penfold JB,Ruiz R,Casalta H

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual landmarks are important navigational aids to many animals, and when more than one is available their juxtaposition can convey valuable new information to a navigator about progress toward a goal, depending on the landmarks' comparative distinctiveness. We investigated the effect of presenting rock ant colonies ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hunt ER,Kendall C,Stanbury E,Sendova-Franks AB,Franks NR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An eight-rat eight-station operant conditioning arena was used to study the spatial structure and temporal stability of foraging dispersion patterns. Food was obtained by bar pressing as the population was exposed to an ascending series of the fixed and variable aspects of ratio and interval schedules of reinforcement...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Goldstein SR,Johnson P,Ward G

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated rats' preferences for using non-spatial and spatial cues in a missing-object recognition task. Rats were trained to find a sunflower seed under any one of four previously missing adjacent objects, the test array of a trial, after having found seeds under three of them in the 'study' array of th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Arain M,Cohen J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted in which pigeons were trained to perform a complex operant consisting of a peck to one key followed by a peck to another key. In the first experment this performance was reinforced on a variable-interval schedule and the birds were then subjected to a multiple schedule in which the varia...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kendall SB

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality and physiological traits often have close relationships with dominance status, but the significance and/or direction of the relationships vary between studies. This study examines whether two personality traits (aggressiveness and boldness) and three physiological traits (testosterone and cortisol levels a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Li CY,Tseng YC,Chen YJ,Yang Y,Hsu Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, pigeons' responding to a visual flicker-rate continuum was established by a maintained generalization procedure. For both experiments, variable-interval reinforcement was available for responses during stimuli from one half of the stimulus continuum while responses during other stimuli were extingu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hinson JM,Higa JJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gunnison's prairie dogs have a complex alarm communication system. We show that the escape responses of prairie dogs to naturally occurring live predators differed depending upon the species of predator. We also show that playbacks of alarm calls that were elicited originally by the live predators produced the same es...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kiriazis J,Slobodchikoff CN

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that duration of tonic immobility (TI) reflects predation risk and levels of fearfulness. Since the chances of escaping predation are higher in larger groups, birds from these groups should have shorter TI duration. On the other hand, increased competition between birds in larger groups might lead to...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bilcik B,Keeling LJ,Newberry RC

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades there has been great progress in discovering the conditions under which cue competition occurs during animal learning. In humans, however, the evidence remains equivocal regarding the degree to which stimuli compete with one another for behavioral control. We report here the results of a single exper...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stahlman WD,McWaters M,Christian E,Knapp E,Fritch A,Mailloux JR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that in mammals prenatal exposure to exogenous testosterone has a masculinizing effect on female morphology and behavior. Fewer studies, however, have been conducted in males on this subject, and the results are controversial. In the present study, we investigated the long-term effect of adminis...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bánszegi O,Szenczi P,Dúcs A,Hudson R,Altbäcker V

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hungry rats were trained to press one lever for a sucrose solution and another for food pellets on a concurrent schedule. The contingency between lever pressing and reinforcement was then reduced by delivering either free sucrose solution or free food pellets. The non-contingent schedule resulted in a greater reductio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dickinson A,Mulatero CW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The movement behaviour of mullet, Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus), an obligate schooling fish species, was recorded for individuals in small groups. Mean speeds and mean turning frequencies both declined significantly with increasing group size. Significant differences between groups were attributed to individual variation....

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fitzsimmons SD,Warburton K

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Forced Swimming Test (FST) models behavioural despair in animals by loss of motivation to respond or the refusal to escape. The present study characterizes the behavioural responses of 12-month-old male 3xTg-AD mice in FST as compared to age-matched no-transgenic (NTg) mice. Paradoxical results were consistently found...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Torres-Lista V,Giménez-Llort L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three pigeons were exposed for 22 sessions to a variant of a multiple variable-time 1-min extinction reinforcement schedule in the presence of a white key. A 1.5-s stimulus change (red) preceded each 1-min component during which food was delivered and a 1.5-s stimulus change (green) preceded each extinction component....

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Steffen P,Liguori A,Marcucella H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00