Proceptive and receptive aspects of oestrus behaviour in gilts.

abstract：:Previous research in our laboratory has demonstrated that chimpanzees can delay gratification by inhibiting consumption of available food items for as long as 3 min as an experimenter transfers additional food items from a transparent container to a bowl placed in front of the subject. In this study, we examined the i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Beran MJ,Evans TA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized matching equation provides a good description of response allocation in concurrent schedules of positive reinforcement in nonhumans as well as in humans. The present experiment was conducted to further investigate the allocation of responding under concurrent schedules of negative reinforcement (i.e., ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Alessandri J,Cançado CR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The way animals move through space is likely to affect the way they learn and remember spatial information. For example, a pelagic fish, Astyanax fasciatus, moves freely in vertical and horizontal space and encodes information from both dimensions with similar accuracy. Benthic fish can also move with six degrees of f...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Davis VA,Holbrook RI,Schumacher S,Guilford T,de Perera TB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that a change in reward magnitude or value alters interval timing, indicating that motivation and timing are not independent processes as was previously believed. The present paper reviews several recent studies, as well as presenting some new evidence with further manipulations of reward val...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galtress T,Marshall AT,Kirkpatrick K

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:In serial feature-negative (SFN) training to a target unconditioned stimulus (US), eight rats received two types of intermingled trials: (1) trials in which a tone was followed by the delivery of a single food pellet US, and (2) trials in which the delivery of a single food pellet US was followed by three additional f...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Goddard MJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On daily time-place learning tasks animals can work for food at different spatial locations during sessions at different times of the day. In previous experiments rats tracked this pattern of food availability with ordinal timing-they learned to respond at the locations in the correct order each day. In contrast, pige...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carr JA,Wilkie DM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of food deprivation on acquisition of autoshaped operant behavior was measured. In one study separate groups of young, male rats that were deprived to 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, and 95% of ad lib weight were subjected to an autoshaping procedure in which a 6 s delay was interposed between lever retraction (whic...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sparber SB,Bollweg GL,Messing RB

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research suggested that 16-week old dog pups, but not wolf pups, show attachment behaviour to a human caregiver. Attachment to a caregiver in dog pups has been demonstrated by differential responding to a caregiver compared to a stranger in the Ainsworth Strange Situation Test. We show here that 3-7 week old ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hall NJ,Lord K,Arnold AM,Wynne CD,Udell MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:In a simulated open-field situation we tried to obtain information about the ability of tomcats to distinguish between urine marks of differing ages. Reactions to these marks were sniffing, sniffing intensively and "Flehmen". The variables we chose to demonstrate a possible discriminatory ability between urine marks o...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： De Boer JN

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-place learning based on food association was investigated in eight food-restricted Nile tilapias. Each fish was individually housed for 10 days in an experimental tank for adjustments to laboratory conditions, and fed daily in excess. Feeding was then interrupted for 17 days. Training was then started, based on a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Delicio HC,Barreto RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being motivated means exerting effort toward a goal. The 'law of least work' emphasizes a preference for exerting relatively less effort. The law crosses boundaries among species and between physical and mental work. Organisms should be highly sensitive to shifts in effort-reward balance (ERB) in order to make optimal...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Knauss ZT,Filipovic M,Smith KA,Queener MM,Lubera JA,Bolden-Hall NM,Smith JP,Goldsmith RS,Bischoff JE,Miller MK,Cromwell HC

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Unrestrained, naı̈ve cats (Felis silvestris catus) (n=48: 28 males and 20 females), living in a natural domestic environment, were studied for paw preferences using a food reaching test. A total of 46% were right-preferent, 44% were left-preferent and 10% were ambilateral. 60% of the cats in our sample used one paw 10...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Pike AV,Maitland DP

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:When the same set of individuals are placed in different social contexts, some groups members often experience a change in dominance status. We examined the context-dependence of social status using a group fusion protocol in male green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri). Six individuals were matched for size and se...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Earley RL,Dugatkin LA

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:The ability of day-old chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) to discriminate between the shape and size of beads was investigated in two one-trial tasks, taste avoidance and sickness-conditioned learning. Previous studies determined that color is a critical classification cue for conditioned stimuli in these tasks. In tas...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barber TA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence and research interest of animal personality, its underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Due to the essential role of monoamines in modulating behaviour, we manipulated the monoaminergic systems of Mediterranean field crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus) to explore whether this altered beh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lundgren KA,Abbey-Lee RN,Garnham LC,Kreshchenko A,Ryding S,Løvlie H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well documented that testosterone (T) is an important mediator in the regulation of behaviour in male vertebrates, its functional significance in females is less understood. Experimentally increased T in adult female birds has been found to have both advantageous and detrimental effects on behaviour and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： López-Rull I,Gil D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Behavior which is effective only through the mediation of other persons has so many distinguishing dynamic and topographical properties that a special treatment is justified and indeed demanded" (Skinner, 1957, p. 2). Skinner's demand for a special treatment of verbal behavior can be extended within that field to dom...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Marr MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As reinforcers are delivered for a particular response, that response increases. Other similar responses also increase, with the extent to which this increase is seen being positively related to the similarity between the responses. This process, called induction, is pronounced during initial response acquisition, and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jarmolowicz DP,Hudnall JL,Darden AC,Lemley SM,Sofis MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：:Communication systems that involve substrate vibrations are increasingly a focus of research since this communication mode - recently termed biotremology - has been found to be remarkably widespread in the animal kingdom. Vibrational signals are often used during courtship and therefore underlie both natural and sexua...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Eberhard MJB,Metze D,Küpper SC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used information statistics to quantify first-order sequential dependencies in the social behavior of two sibling wolf pups (Canis lupus). Sequential dependencies in the behavior of the individual pups increased between the first sample (18-32 days of age) and two later samples taken from 34-53 days and 64-106 days...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： McLeod PJ,Fentress JC

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:In the Monty Hall Dilemma (MHD), a contestant makes a guess as to which door conceals a prize. The host then reveals the contents of an unchosen, incorrect door, and then gives the contestant a choice of sticking with the initial guess or switching to the remaining door. Given certain crucial assumptions, the rational...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Granberg D

更新日期：1999-11-01 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