Defensive behaviour and its inheritance in the anabantoid fish, Macropodus opercularis and Macropodus opercularis concolor.

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：:Do young children understand the numerical value of empty sets prior to developing a concept of symbolic zero? Are empty sets represented as mental magnitudes? In order to investigate these questions, we tested 4-year old children and adults with a numerical ordering task in which the goal was to select two stimuli in...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Merritt DJ,Brannon EM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals in unfamiliar environments may increase exploratory movements, which may result in predation mortalities (the site familiarity hypothesis). Furthermore, increases in resource dispersion may reduce animal foraging time in small patches, and increase movements and home ranges of animals to acquire sufficient res...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Marable MK,Belant JL,Godwin D,Wang G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of syllable variation tolerance was tested using synthetic homologue syllables. A synthetic copy of a common syllable type of cirl bunting Emberiza cirlus song was used as control. Homologue syllables, in the same frequency range but shorter or longer, were created by multiplying (2/3, 5/3, 7/3) the time sc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kreutzer ML

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical principles of reinforcement (MPR) attempts to integrate the empirical laws of reinforcement schedules that have accumulated over the decades. MPR is based on three principles: incentives excite behavior; there are temporal constraints on responding; and coupling of responses to reinforcers strengthens beh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Reilly MP

更新日期：2003-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments, there are usually two general ways of obtaining dominants and subordinates to test for the effect of recent experience upon ulterior behavior and dominance. One is to 'impose' such an experience on the contestants by a priori deciding which individual of the pair will become the dominant and which will...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Beaugrand JP,Goulet C

更新日期：2000-08-17 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：:The present experiment provided a replication in humans of an experimental procedure that has been used frequently with nonhumans to investigate choice behaviour in a changing environment. Six volunteers played a computer game, which required tracking of a moving balloon on two simultaneously available response panels...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Krägeloh CU,Zapanta AE,Shepherd D,Landon J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In time-place learning (TPL) paradigms animals are thought to form tripartite memory codes consisting of the spatiotemporal characteristics of biologically significant events. In Phase I, rats were trained on a modified TPL task in which either the spatial or temporal component was constant, while the other component ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Thorpe CM,Hallett D,Wilkie DM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we present electroencephalographic (EEG) recording data obtained in correlation with timing behavior in rats trained in a 30-s peak interval (PI) procedure. The distribution of lever press responses was found to be Gaussian, peaking at approximately 30s: lever pressing behavior increased for 30s then de...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hattori M,Sakata S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pavlovian conditioning is sensitive to the temporal relationship between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US). This has motivated models that describe learning as a process that continuously updates associative strength during the trial or specifically encodes the CS-US interval. These mod...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chan CKJ,Harris JA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the function of alloparental behavior in cooperatively breeding species. We examined whether alloparental experience as juveniles enhanced later parental care and reproductive success in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), a cooperatively breeding rodent. Juveniles...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stone AI,Mathieu D,Griffin L,Bales KL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous investigators have examined the hypothesis that males and females learn or perform differentially on various tasks. However, many of the behavioural investigations with nonhuman animals (e.g., rats) have used paradigms that do not permit the exploration of complex learning and memory between the sexes. To thi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kundey SMA,Bajracharya A,Boettger-Tong H,Fountain SB,Rowan JD

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background matching is an important way to camouflage and is widespread among animals. In the field, however, few studies have addressed background matching, and there has been no reported camouflage efficiency in freshwater turtles. Background matching and camouflage efficiency of the four-eyed turtle, Sacalia quadri...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Xiao F,Yang C,Shi H,Wang J,Sun L,Lin L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to utilize numerical information can be adaptive in a number of ecological contexts including foraging, mating, parental care, and anti-predator strategies. Numerical abilities of mammals and birds have been studied both in natural conditions and in controlled laboratory conditions using a variety of appro...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Agrillo C,Miletto Petrazzini ME,Bisazza A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear reactions of ewes towards a human, a human-like model or a control (plastic cylinder 1.95 m high) were studied using a test previously designed and validated, in which 16 behavioural parameters have been interpreted as indicators of fear (e.g. a relatively long time spent away from the stimulus) or absence of fea...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bouissou MF,Vandenheede M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological distance to reward, or the segmentation effect, refers to the preference for a terminal link of a concurrent-chains schedule consisting of a simple reinforcement schedule (e.g. fixed interval [FI] 30s) relative to its chained-schedule counterpart (e.g. chained FI 15s FI 15s). This experiment was conducte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Doughty AH,Meginley ME,Doughty SS,Lattal KA

更新日期：2004-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates flexibly change their grooming behavior depending on group size and composition to maintain social relationships among group members. However, how drastic social changes influence their grooming behavior remains unclear. We observed the grooming behavior of adult female Japanese macaques in two groups tempora...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kurihara Y,Nishikawa M,Mochida K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interruptions and unfamiliar events (distracters) during a timed signal disrupt (delay) timing in humans and other animals. We hypothesized that repeated exposure to a stimulus may reduce its subsequent time-disrupting properties. To test this hypothesis rats were trained in a reversed peak-interval (RPI) procedure, i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Buhusi CV,Matthews AR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last days of incubation vocalization is a form of communication between the avian embryo and the incubating parent. Commonly, embryonic calls increase when ambient temperature (Ta) deviates from the optimal range, but no information is available on whether the characteristics of the calls differ between war...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mortola JP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have suggested that non-human primates have good individual recognition abilities, that social stimuli can serve as discriminative stimuli in learning tests and that visual access to social objects or events can be a reinforcer for operant behaviour. Intensified research efforts comparing the effectivenes...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Anderson JR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of infants in the communal rearing system of marmosets and tamarins has received little attention although their demands may not be complied by inadequate helpers. As acoustic signalling plays an important role in their social communication, it is expected to be an effective way for infants to signal their de...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Geiss S,Schrader L

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:Mice are emerging as an important behavioral model for studies of auditory perception and acoustic communication. These mammals frequently produce ultrasonic vocalizations, although the details of how these vocalizations are used for communication are not entirely understood. An important step in determining how they ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Radziwon KE,Dent ML

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to rehearse possible future courses of action in the mind is an important feature of advanced social cognition in humans, and the "social brain" hypothesis implies that it might also be a feature of primate social cognition. We tested two chimpanzees, six orangutans and 63 children aged 3-7 years on a set ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dunbar RI,McAdam MR,O'connell S

更新日期：2005-06-30 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：:We investigated whether the development of spatial behaviour of the domestic chicken is influenced by light exposure of the embryo, as is known to be the case for some other lateralized visual functions. Ninety-six chicks were incubated in the dark or exposed to light during the final days of incubation. Half of the c...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wichman A,Rogers LJ,Freire R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research investigated the blocking effect in three different species, rats, humans and snails in formally equivalent tasks using a within-subjects design. Experiment 1 demonstrated the blocking effect in a context-flavour aversive conditioning preparation in rats: Animals failed to associate a flavour with...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Prados J,Alvarez B,Acebes F,Loy I,Sansa J,Moreno-Fernández MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of schedules of reinforcement on the development of superstitious conditioning was investigated in a college age population. Participants were randomly assigned to one of eight operant schedules and instructed to remove (escape), prevent and/or remove (avoidance and escape) or produce (positive) the appearanc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bloom CM,Venard J,Harden M,Seetharaman S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female rats of the inbred August and Fischer strains were reared during two months after weaning either in a standard laboratory environment (controls) or in a more complex environment (treated animals). The performance of these rats was measured afterwards in an operant conditioning situation with positive r...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Will B,Ungerer A,Pallaud B,Ropartz P

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00