Male and female guppies differ in speed but not in accuracy in visual discrimination learning.

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：:Like humans, Old World monkeys are known to use configural face processing to distinguish among individuals. The ability to recognize an individual through the perception of subtle differences in the configuration of facial features plays an important role in social cognition. To test this ability in New World monkeys...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Nakata R,Osada Y

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateralization represents a key property of many behavioural traits, with the right and left sides of the brain providing different and integrative functions. Common ecological contexts where lateralization can be observed are foraging and predatory ones, where both visual and auditory lateralization may provide advan...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pellitteri-Rosa D,Lazić M,Gazzola A,Vallortigara G

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large pythons and boas comprise a group of animals whose anatomy and physiology are very different from traditional mammalian, avian and other reptilian models typically used in operant conditioning. In the current study, investigators used a modified shaping procedure involving successive approximations to train wild...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Emer SA,Mora CV,Harvey MT,Grace MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scatter hoarding birds are known for their accurate spatial memory. In a previous experiment, we tested the retrieval accuracy in marsh tits in a typical laboratory set-up for this species. We also tested the performance of humans in this experimental set-up. Somewhat unexpectedly, humans performed much better than ma...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Urhan AU,Brodin A

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:Recent evidence for different tool kits, proposed to be based upon culture-like transmission, have been observed across different chimpanzee communities across Western Africa. In light of these findings, the reported failures by seven captive juvenile chimpanzees tested with 27 tool use tasks (Povinelli 2000) seem eni...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Furlong EE,Boose KJ,Boysen ST

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman animals demonstrate a number of impressive quantitative skills such as counting sets of items, comparing sets on the basis of the number of items or amount of material, and even responding to simple arithmetic manipulations. In this experiment, capuchin monkeys were presented with a computerized task designed...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Beran MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful navigation within an environment requires that the traveler establish the correct heading--a process referred to as orienting. Many studies have now shown that humans and non-human animals can use the geometric properties of an enclosure to orient. In the present study, two groups of Clark's nutcrackers (Nu...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kelly DM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imitation can be defined as the copying of behavior. To a biologist, interest in imitation is focused on its adaptive value for the survival of the organism, but to a psychologist, the mechanisms responsible for imitation are the most interesting. For psychologists, the most important cases of imitation are those that...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Zentall TR

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:In Experiment 1 each rat received two different fixed series of three trials each. The unconditioned stimulus occurred on Trial 1 of one series and on Trial 3 of the other series, all other trials being nonreinforced. Previous Pavlovian investigations have shown that rats can remember the immediately prior reward outc...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Martins AP,Miller RM,Capaldi EJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of ungulates to discriminate among vegetation patches depends largely on the senses of vision, olfaction, tactility, and gustation. However, little is known about how ungulates rely on the respective senses in response to varying patch characteristics. This study aimed to evaluate how relative importance o...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Hirata M,Kusatake N

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cuttlefish have a large repertoire of body patterns that are used for camouflage and interspecific signaling. Intraspecific signaling by male cuttlefish has been well documented but studies on signaling by females are lacking. We found that females displayed a newly described body pattern termed Splotch toward their m...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Palmer ME,Calvé MR,Adamo SA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Bees, wasps and ants--so-called central-place foragers--need potent homing strategies to return to their nest. Path integration and view-based landmark guidance are the key strategies for the ants' navigation. For instance, they memorise different views in a sequence (sequential memory) but also have a step counter th...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Schwarz S,Cheng K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hardest problems in studying animal behaviour is to quantify patterns of social interaction at the group level. Recent technological developments in global positioning system (GPS) devices have opened up new avenues for locating animals with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Likewise, advances ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dahl CD,Ferrando E,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:There is currently much debate about the nature of social learning in chimpanzees. The main question is whether they can copy others' actions, as opposed to reproducing the environmental effects of these actions using their own preexisting behavioral strategies. In the current study, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Call J,Carpenter M,Tomasello M

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Throughout the animal kingdom, antipredator mechanisms are an evolutionary driving force to enable the survival of species classified as prey. Information regarding a predator's location can be determined through chemosensory cues from urine, faeces, visual and/or acoustic signals and anal gland secretions; and in sev...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Samuel L,Arnesen C,Zedrosser A,Rosell F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the behavioural and cognitive development of a captive male infant chimpanzee, Ayumu, raised by his mother, Ai. Here we report Ayumu's achievements up to the age of 2 years and 3 months, in the context of complex computer-controlled tasks. From soon after birth, Ayumu had been present during an experim...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sousa C,Okamoto S,Matsuzawa T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairing a previously neutral conditioned stimulus (CS; e.g., a tone) to an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US; e.g., a foot-shock) leads to associative learning such that the tone alone will elicit a conditioned response (e.g., freezing). Individuals can also acquire fear from a social context, such as through observ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jones CE,Riha PD,Gore AC,Monfils MH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantity discrimination is adaptive in a variety of ecological contexts and different taxa discriminate stimuli differing in numerousness, both in the wild and in laboratory settings. Quantity discrimination between object arrays has been suggested to be more demanding than between food arrays but, to our knowledge, t...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Addessi E,Crescimbene L,Visalberghi E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans readily group component elements into a coherent perceptual whole and perceive the global form of visual patterns in priority over local features, which stands in contrast to at least some data from the animal literature, suggesting possible species differences in perceptual processes. In this study, chimpanzee...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Martin-Malivel J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined inferential reasoning by exclusion in the Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) using two-way object-choice procedures. While other social scatter-hoarding corvids appear capable of engaging in inferential reasoning, it remains unclear if the relatively less social nutcracker is able to do so. In an in...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tornick JK,Gibson BM

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:As with humans, vocal communication is an important social tool for nonhuman primates. Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) often produce whistle-like 'phee' calls when they are visually separated from conspecifics. The neural processes specific to phee call perception, however, are largely unknown, despite the possi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kato M,Yokoyama C,Kawasaki A,Takeda C,Koike T,Onoe H,Iriki A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of novel behavior is a multilayered phenomenon that comprehends distinct processes. One such process is known as insightful problem solving. "Insight" can be explained as the spontaneous interconnection of previously acquired behavioral repertoires. The objective of this study was to investigate: (1) whe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Neves Filho HB,de Carvalho Neto MB,Taytelbaum GP,Malheiros RD,Knaus YC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00