On the time course of rapid and repeatable response induction.

abstract：:An experiment with rats investigated forgetting of inhibition of delay in the conditioned suppression paradigm. The combined effects of contextual change and retention interval were tested. After a reliable temporal discrimination was reached, half of the rats received a test in the training context after a retention ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rosas JM,Alonso G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female and male animals often choose mates based upon the complementarity of their courtship behaviours and preferences. The importance of this fact on the evolutionary dynamics of populations has long been appreciated. What has not been appreciated is the role that social learning might play in the transmission of sy...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Freeberg TM

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that animals are able to discriminate between quantities. Recent studies have shown that dogs' and coyotes' ability to discriminate between quantities of food items decreases with increasing numerical ratio. Conversely, wolves' performance is not affected by numerical ratio. Cross-speci...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Miletto Petrazzini ME,Wynne CDL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group choice describes the behavioral phenomenon in which a group of individuals chooses between two behavioral alternatives over time and the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) [Acta Biotheor. 19 (1970) 16] describes group choice analogous to individual choice and the matching law. Our experiments investigated the usefuln...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kraft JR,Baum WM,Burge MJ

更新日期：2002-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that wheel running in rats produces conditioned taste avoidance; that is, rats that run in wheels after consuming a novel-tasting solution later consume less of that solution than rats that do not run. In experiment 1, we found that wheel running also produces conditioned disgust reactions, indi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Grant VL,McDonald SV,Sheppard RC,Caldwell CL,Heeley TH,Brown AR,Martin GM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioural responses to odours delivered in an olfactometer prove that Leptopilina boulardi (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae), a parasitic wasp of Drosophila larvae, is able to memorize three different odours which have been associated successively with oviposition experience. They exhibit differential responses which depend...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kaiser L,De Jong R

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated in 5- and 8-year-olds, as well as in adults, the effect of verbal counting on temporal discrimination behavior in a generalization task with two duration ranges in order to test the scalar timing property. The results showed that counting improved temporal sensitivity in all age groups, ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Clément A,Droit-Volet S

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral ontogeny involves the interaction of innate predispositions and experience. In bird song learning, one approach to exploring this interaction is to examine the songs rehearsed by young birds whose exposure to tutor models has been carefully controlled. Here, I analyzed the rehearsed repertoire in Nuttall's ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Soha JA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of size asymmetries between contestants that engage in agonistic interactions at a limited food source were investigated. Rates of agonistic interactions at the experimental food sources were not density-dependent. Most of the interactions concerned dyads either of the same developmental stage or of clo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rivault C,Cloarec A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic levels of TRH were contrasted in identified dominant and submissive (housed together for 4 days) Swiss male mice and undisturbed 'isolated' counterparts. Both dominants and submissives had significantly higher titres of this hormone than the 'isolates', suggesting that the experience of fighting relativel...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mainardi M,Vescovi PP,Valenti G,Martino E,Brain PF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social learning refers to individuals learning from others, including information gained through indirect social influences, such as the results of others' actions and changes in the physical environment. One method to determine the relative influence of these varieties of information is the 'ghost display', in which ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hopper LM,Lambeth SP,Schapiro SJ,Whiten A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) investigated whether individual differences in emotionality, as measured by scratching frequencies, are stable over time and across seasons. Five adult females living in captive social groups were observed during two consecutive birth seasons and five females during the b...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Maestripieri D

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The territorial defense of mating sites by males should be favored when female monopolization is possible. Such monopolization should occur in species in which females emerge asynchronously, since males may have time to copulate with one female before the arrival of other. However, regions with smaller reproductive wi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Peixoto PE,Medina AM,Mendoza-Cuenca L

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Four studies were conducted which demonstrate that most (63%) male Sprague-Dawley rats can attain criterion, nine correct choices over ten consecutive trials, on a time-of-day discrimination in an elevated T-maze, but that the task is relatively difficult. The discrimination required that the rats go to one goal arm d...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Means LW,Ginn SR,Arolfo MP,Pence JD

更新日期：2000-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fish Aidablennius sphynx, in which males continuously care for up to 7000 eggs throughout the breeding season, females prefer to mate with males that already guard eggs. The present study shows that this preference appears to be adaptive because the probability of eggs being cannibalized decreased with brood si...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kraak SB

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ground squirrels emit species-specific alarm calls that, among other characteristics, differ by the number of elements. Unlike some species that produce single-element calls, e.g., the Speckled ground squirrel (Spermophilus suslicus), individual European ground squirrels (S. citellus) frequently emit binary-element ca...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Schneiderová I,Volodina EV,Matrosova VA,Volodin IA

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Lateralisation, the different use of one or other side or appendix of the body, is basically determined by brain asymmetry which, in turn, is likely to be due to adaptive reasons. Several studies have been carried out on birds in general. However, birds of prey in particular, although they are very good candidates, ha...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Csermely D

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiment 1, rats were trained in a within-subjects design to discriminate durations of a filled interval, and durations of an empty interval (an unfilled interval marked at the beginning and end by a 500 ms tone). Training and psychophysical testing was conducted with three sets of anchor durations. Rats made mor...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Santi A,Miki A,Hornyak S,Eidse J

更新日期：2006-02-28 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：:When shown prawns in a glass tube, cuttlefish quickly learn to inhibit their predatory behaviour. The available literature suggests that cuttlefish show an excellent retention between 2 and 8 min, a recovery of the predatory responses around 20 min, and good retention after 1 h of the training phase. These results hav...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dickel L,Chichery MP,Chichery R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte Carlo simulations were performed to analyze the degree to which two-, three- and four-step learning histories of losses and gains correlated with escalation and persistence in extended extinction (continuous loss) conditions. Simulated learning histories were randomly generated at varying lengths and composition...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gilroy SP,Hantula DA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an extensive literature suggesting that following sexual experience male mammals show chronic elevation of sexual behavior and growth of reproductive organs and glands. An hypothesis was examined in the present research that a similar pattern of changes would be revealed in females after sexual contact withou...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Taylor GT,Bardgett M,Griffin M,Weiss J

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:It is known that rats tend to eat a smaller/lighter piece of food at the food source but carry a larger/heavier one to the nest for consumption. This could be interpreted well in terms of the trade-off or motivational conflict between "feeding" and "risk avoidance", because eating food immediately satisfies feeding mo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Onuki Y,Kato K,Makino J

更新日期：2005-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for assessing the effects of stressor combinations in improving the welfare of animals has not been widely recognised. Knowledge of the effects of concurrent stressors is needed to improve environments such as transport, where animals are presented with many simultaneous challenges. However, no method ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Abeyesinghe SM,Nicol CJ,Wathes CM,Randall JM

更新日期：2001-12-03 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 aim of the present study was to evaluate whether dogs that exhibit stereotypy also show higher behavioral persistence in an extinction-learning task. Thirteen pet dogs with stereotypy and 13 breed-matched control dogs were assessed on a resistance to extinction test. Each dog was trained for 40 trials using a food...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Protopopova A,Hall NJ,Wynne CD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a vast literature on the behavioural effects of partial reinforcement in Pavlovian conditioning. Compared with animals receiving continuous reinforcement, partially rewarded animals typically show (a) a slower development of the conditioned response (CR) early in training and (b) a higher asymptotic level of ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Anselme P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00