Lack of evidence that Tonkean macaques understand what others can hear.

abstract：:Four Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) were tested on their ability to obtain an item suspended from a string such that mutiple, repeated, coordinated beak-foot actions were required for success (e.g., Heinrich 1995). Those birds with little training in referential English requests (e.g. "I want X") succeeded, wherea...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pepperberg IM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to compute probability, previously shown in nonverbal infants, apes, and monkeys, was examined in three experiments with pigeons. After responding to individually presented keys in an operant chamber that delivered reinforcement with varying probabilities, pigeons chose between these keys on probe trials. ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Roberts WA,MacDonald H,Lo KH

更新日期：2018-07-01 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

abstract：:While the effects of lead pollution have been well studied in vertebrates, it is unclear to what extent lead may negatively affect insect cognition. Lead pollution in soils can elevate lead in plant tissues, suggesting it could negatively affect neural development of insect herbivores. We used the cabbage white butter...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Philips KH,Kobiela ME,Snell-Rood EC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True tool use has been documented in some bird species, but to our knowledge, it has not been shown in woodpeckers. Here, we investigated the ability of Picoides major to open nuts of Juglans mandshurica by consistently inserting walnuts between tree branches in a specific position that facilitated nut opening. As see...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Yi X,Steele MA,Shen Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish is an ideal vertebrate model for neurobehavioral studies with translational relevance to humans. Many aspects of sleep have been studied, but we still do not understand how and why sleep deprivation alters behavioral and physiological processes. A number of hypotheses suggest its role in memory consolida...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pinheiro-da-Silva J,Silva PF,Nogueira MB,Luchiari AC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of animals to communicate using gaze is a rich area of research. How domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) use and respond to the gaze of humans is an area of particular interest. This study examined how three groups of domestic dogs from different populations (free-ranging dogs, pet dogs, and shelter dog...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Brubaker L,Bhattacharjee D,Ghaste P,Babu D,Shit P,Bhadra A,Udell MAR

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Two experiments assessed the ability of four adult female chimpanzees to categorize natural objects. Chimpanzees were initially trained to match different color photographs of familiar objects from four possible categories. In training, all the comparison stimuli were from the same category in one condition, and from ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tanaka M

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Evolutionary theories suggest that ecology is a major factor shaping cognition in primates. However, there have been few systematic tests of spatial memory abilities involving multiple primate species. Here, we examine spatial memory skills in four strepsirrhine primates that vary in level of frugivory: ruffed lemurs ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Rosati AG,Rodriguez K,Hare B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that Carolina chickadees and tufted titmice use a predator's head orientation to determine risk, taking fewer seeds from a feeder if an avian predator model's head is facing the feeder while ignoring the head orientation. In addition to head orientation, eyes are a cue of predator risk. In ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kyle SC

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to use heterospecific alarm calls is adaptive in the wild, as it provides an opportunity to avoid predators. We now know that several species are able to respond to alarm calls intended for others. However, this capacity has never been investigated in domestic animals. The capacity to use heterospecific al...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dutour M,Danel S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement recognition is central to visual perception and cognition, yet its origins are poorly understood. Can newborn animals encode and recognize movements at the onset of vision, or does this ability have a protracted developmental trajectory? To address this question, we used an automated controlled-rearing method...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Goldman JG,Wood JN

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:An adult male orangutan (Pongo abelii) was presented with a series of delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) tasks in which he was to match images based on (a) the number of individual animals depicted in the photograph (from 1 to 4), (b) the number of abstract shapes presented in the stimulus (from 1 to 4), or (c) the num...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Vonk J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are characterized by complex social cognitive abilities that emerge early in development. Comparative studies of nonhuman primates can illuminate the evolutionary history of these social capacities. We examined the cognitive skills that rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) use to follow gaze, a foundational skill in...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bettle R,Rosati AG

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：:Evidence from the literature indicates that dogs' choices can be influenced by human-delivered social cues, such as pointing, and pointing combined with facial expression, intonation (i.e., rising and falling voice pitch), and/or words. The present study used an object choice task to investigate whether intonation con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Colbert-White EN,Tullis A,Andresen DR,Parker KM,Patterson KE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chameleons are arboreal lizards with highly independent, large amplitude eye movements. In response to an approaching threat, a chameleon on a vertical pole moves so as to keep itself away from the threat. In so doing, it shifts between monocular and binocular scanning of the threat and of the environment. We analyzed...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lustig A,Keter-Katz H,Katzir G

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six rats were trained to find a previously missing target or 'jackpot' object in a square array of four identical or different objects (the test segment of a trial) after first visiting and collecting sunflower seeds from under the other three objects (the study segment of a trial). During training, objects' local pos...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Arain M,Parameswaran V,Cohen J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tests whether the face-processing system of humans and a nonhuman primate species share characteristics that would allow for early and quick processing of socially salient stimuli: a sensitivity toward conspecific faces, a sensitivity toward highly practiced face stimuli, and an ability to generalize change...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Neiworth JJ,Hassett JM,Sylvester CJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Few studies have examined whether non-human tool-users understand the properties that are relevant for a tool's function. We tested cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on an expectancy violation procedure designed to assess whether these species make distinctions between the fun...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Santos LR,Miller CT,Hauser MD

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects in conditioning experiments time their conditioned responses relative to the onsets of the conditioned stimuli (CSs). These onsets are temporal landmarks, by reference to which subjects may estimate the location of the unconditioned stimulus (US) in time. In a serial compound conditioning paradigm, a long dur...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Fairhurst S,Gallistel CR,Gibbon J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most robust sex differences in cognition across polygynous mammalian species are the sex-specific patterns of the use of spatial cues during encoding and orientation. In laboratory rats, wild rodents, and humans, females orient preferentially to the features and arrangement of local landmarks, while males preferen...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bettis TJ,Jacobs LF

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Trait heritability is necessary for evolution by both natural and artificial selection, yet we know little about the heritability of cognitive traits. Domestic dogs are a valuable study system for questions regarding the evolution of phenotypic diversity due to their extraordinary intraspecific variation. While previo...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Gnanadesikan GE,Hare B,Snyder-Mackler N,MacLean EL

更新日期：2020-09-01 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