The problem with categorical thinking by psychologists.

abstract：:The behaviour of stroking the abdomen over the nest surface has previously been described in females of only a few Polistes wasp species, and was considered to be associated with pheromonal release. This study examines abdomen stroking in solitary and multiple female laboratory colonies of Polistes dominulus during th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dani FR,Cervo R,Turillazzi S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals foraging in heterogeneous environments benefit from information on local resource density because it allows allocation of foraging effort to rich patches. In foraging groups, this information may be obtained by individuals through sampling or by observing the foraging behaviour of group members. We studied the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stenberg M,Persson A

更新日期：2005-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk allocation hypothesis predicts that vigilance should be adjusted to the temporal variation in risk. We test this hypothesis in wild fallow deer exposed to short term (disturbance) and long term (presence of a fawn after parturition) changes in risk. We recorded the proportion, frequency and type of vigilance ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bergvall UA,Svensson L,Kjellander P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals use cues from their environment to orient in space and to navigate their surroundings. Geometry is a cue whose informational content may originate from the metric properties of a given environment, and its use has been demonstrated in the laboratory in nearly every species of animal tested. However, it is not ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hornsby MAW,Healy SD,Hurly TA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serial order in which events occur can be a signal for different outcomes and therefore might be a determinant of how an animal should respond. In this report, we propose a novel design for studying serial order learning in Pavlovian conditioning. In both Experiments 1a and 1b, hungry rats were trained with succes...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Murphy RA,Mondragón E,Murphy VA,Fouquet N

更新日期：2004-09-30 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 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：:Pigeons pecked keys or pressed treadles on variable ratio schedules in which they earned their total daily ration of food. Ratio requirements varied in five steps from 15 to 240 responses per reinforcer. Results were generally similar for pecking and pressing. Rates of responding increased with increases in the ratio ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Duran C,McSweeney FK

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mated pairs of Mongolian gerbils were rejoined by two of their own young, of both sexes, after periods of separation starting when the young were four or seven weeks of age and lasting either one or four weeks. An additional group of young was separated from their parents when six weeks old, this time for two weeks. T...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Le Guelte L,le Berre M,Coulon J,Amagat C

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gambler's fallacy is defined as the avoidance of a winning outcome in a stochastic environment with a constant probability. We tested the possibility that the gambler's fallacy in humans is responsive to the amount of time between choice allocations. Two groups of subjects were placed in a six-choice betting game ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Militana E,Wolfson E,Cleaveland JM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The imposition of subordination may negatively impact cognitive performance in common social settings (e.g., the classroom), and likewise, laboratory studies of animals indicate that the stress associated with social defeat can impair cognitive performance. It is less clear whether an animal's predisposition for socia...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Matzel LD,Kolata S,Light K,Sauce B

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance in object search tasks is not only influenced by the subjects' object permanence ability. For example, ostensive cues of the human manipulating the target markedly affect dogs' choices. However, the interference between the target's location and the spatial cues of the human hiding the object is still unkn...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Péter A,Topál J,Miklósi Á,Pongrácz P

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the use of ventilatory frequency (VF) as an indicator of stress in the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.). Firstly, we tested the relationship between VF and plasma cortisol after confinement. Confined fish showed higher VF and plasma cortisol levels, but the latter continued to increase signif...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barreto RE,Volpato GL

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Although animals typically prefer to exert less effort rather than more effort to obtain food, the present research shows that requiring greater effort to obtain food at a particular location appears to increase the value of that location. In Experiment 1, pigeons' initial preference for one feeder was significantly r...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Friedrich AM,Zentall TR

更新日期：2004-11-30 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：:Increased physical exercise is known to prevent leg problems in meat-type chickens. Our aims were to study in detail the organisation of general and locomotor activity, to determine how physical exercise could be promoted and to investigate the effects of tonic immobility (TI) duration on spontaneous activity. Chicks ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bizeray D,Leterrier C,Constantin P,Le Pape G,Faure JM

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats, in terms of variety of species and their absolute numbers, are the most successful mammals on earth. The anatomical and functional peculiarities of Microchiroptera are not confined only to the auditory system; the wings (hands) of bats are unique both from an anatomical point of view as from a sensorial one. The...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Zucca P,Palladini A,Baciadonna L,Scaravelli D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the possible role of neuroanatomical features in Pavlovian conditioning, via computer simulations with layered, feedforward artificial neural networks. The networks' structure and functioning are described by a strongly bottom-up model that takes into account the roles of hippocampal and dopami...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sánchez JM,Galeazzi JM,Burgos JE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial expressions have been extensively used to assess emotions in humans and thus could be extended to other species that also display facial movements. In mice both painful and fearful situations have been associated with particular shifts in facial expressions. Like other species, mice frequently show a great inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lecorps B,Féron C

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:The electroretinogram (ERG) was used to measure the flicker-fusion frequencies of Rana lessonae, Bufo bufo and Bombina bombina over the temperature range 5-25°C. In all three species the fusion frequency increased with increasing temperature. In the intermediate range of temperatures, the fusion frequencies of Rana le...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Schäfer HJ,Schmidt U,Brzoska J,Hubl L

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Context renewal is the relapse of an extinguished response due to changing the stimulus context following extinction. Reinforcing operant responding in Context A and extinguishing in Context B results in relapse when either returning to Context A (ABA renewal) or introducing a novel Context C (ABC renewal). ABA renewa...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Podlesnik CA,Miranda-Dukoski L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding individual behavioral differences in domestic cats could lead to improved selection when potential cat owners choose a pet with whom to share their lives, along with consequent improvements in cat welfare. Yet very few attempts have been made to elicit cat personality dimensions using the trait-based exp...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bennett PC,Rutter NJ,Woodhead JK,Howell TJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:We analyzed the temporal pattern of conditioned suppression of lever-pressing for food in rats conditioned with tone-shock pairings using either a 10 or 15s conditioned stimulus (CS)-unconditioned stimulus (US) interval with a CS duration that was three times the CS-US interval. The analysis of average suppression and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tallot L,Capela D,Brown BL,Doyère V

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:In the first experiment, farmed blue foxes were allowed to choose for 1 week between four standard farm cages equipped with different floor materials: plastic-coated wire mesh, dry wood, dry sand and wet (summer) or icy (winter) sand. Resting consisted of 10-15 separate bouts/day occupying 50-60% of the total 24-h. Th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Harri M,Kasanen S,Mononen J,Sepponen J

更新日期：2000-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Kin recognition requires the ability to discriminate between one's own genetic relatives and non-relatives. There are two mechanisms that aid in kin discrimination: phenotype matching and familiarity. Dogs may be a good model for assessing these mechanisms as dogs are a promiscuous social species with a keen sense of ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hamilton J,Vonk J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bumble bees were trained to discriminate between two visual patterns, one of which was rewarding (S+) and one of which was unrewarding (S-). Subsequently, they were tested for discrimination between two non-rewarding patterns: the top halves of the training patterns, the bottom halves or the side halves. Three conditi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Thivierge J,Plowright C,Chan T

更新日期：2002-09-30 00:00:00

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