Working memory in children assessed with serial chaining and Simon tasks.

abstract：:The movement behaviour of mullet, Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus), an obligate schooling fish species, was recorded for individuals in small groups. Mean speeds and mean turning frequencies both declined significantly with increasing group size. Significant differences between groups were attributed to individual variation....

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fitzsimmons SD,Warburton K

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:In two experiments, pigeons' responding to a visual flicker-rate continuum was established by a maintained generalization procedure. For both experiments, variable-interval reinforcement was available for responses during stimuli from one half of the stimulus continuum while responses during other stimuli were extingu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hinson JM,Higa JJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted an experiment on female Anolis carolinensis lizards to investigate whether social factors influenced their selection of an end-chamber in a test arena. We tested (1) whether characteristics of males previously seen in the end-chambers would influence female choice and (2) whether the presence of other fem...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stellar JE,White DJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:During foraging, thousands of leaf-cutting ant workers travel along high traffic foraging trails which, when narrow, reduce the leaf delivery rate due to the reduction in workers' travel-speed. On the other hand, high worker traffic promotes head-on encounters which are supposed to mediate worker task allocation and s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hastenreiter IN,Lopes JFS,da Silva Camargo R,Forti LC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of the orientation of the wood-cricket, Nemobius sylvestris, was studied experimentally in a variety of biotopes. In each experimental situation, the straightness of the routes taken by crickets improves with age. These results demonstrate that, depending on the variety of the constraints within each livi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Beugnon G,Mieulet F,Campan R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the function of alloparental behavior in cooperatively breeding species. We examined whether alloparental experience as juveniles enhanced later parental care and reproductive success in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), a cooperatively breeding rodent. Juveniles...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stone AI,Mathieu D,Griffin L,Bales KL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recourse to anthropomorphism, folk psychology, or discontinuist thought, in order to take into account the richness of animal cognitive processes and of their evolution, is of some heuristic value. However, in the absence of recognised criteria allowing the hypothesised behavioural discontinuities between species to b...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vidal JM,Vancassel M,Quris R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In delay discounting, choice is between two reinforcers that differ in amount and delay, and the subjective value of either reinforcer decreases as a function of delay to its receipt. The steepness of the discounting function is thought to reflect the degree of impulsive choice. Many factors can influence impulsive ch...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Huskinson SL,Anderson KG

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Some African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus), the most famous being Pepperberg's parrot Alex, are able to imitate human speech and produce labels referentially. In this study, the aim was to teach ten African grey parrots from two laboratories to label items. Training three parrots from the first laboratory for sev...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Giret N,Péron F,Lindová J,Tichotová L,Nagle L,Kreutzer M,Tymr F,Bovet D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human recreation can negatively affect wildlife, particularly on weekends when human activity is highest (i.e., the weekend effect). Much of what we understand about the weekend effect is based on research conducted on diurnal species, which have greater temporal overlap with humans. Because nocturnal species generall...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Nix JH,Howell RG,Hall LK,McMillan BR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hens were trained to door push and three were trained to head bob using food as the reinforcer (Behaviour 1 training). A period of extinction followed. Each hen was then trained to perform the other behaviour (Behaviour 2) and this was followed by seven sessions of extinction. This whole sequence was repeated si...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cleland BS,Foster TM,Temple W

更新日期：2000-12-07 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：: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：:Laboratory studies of scatter hoarding birds have become a model system for spatial memory studies. Considering that such birds are known to have a good spatial memory, recovery success in lab studies seems low. In parids (titmice and chickadees) typically ranging between 25 and 60% if five seeds are cached in 50-128 ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Brodin A,Urhan AU

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent urine provides animals with a large amount of information, from the identity of the animal through its physical condition to social status. Many studies therefore focus on rodent urine-marking behaviour and use marking frequency as an indicator of social status or competitive ability. However, marking, like man...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lantová P,Brixová L,Lanta V

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies of mate choice have focused on female preference for male traits because it is generally assumed that since males provide less parental investment they are not choosy. However, if males suffer missed opportunity costs by mating with lower quality females, selection should favor males with the ability to d...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Costello AK,Pultorak JD,Meikle DB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this otherwise insightful line of investigation, some aspects of rules of thumb (RoT) remain underspecified: their evolution and function, how they are selected for a task, how they are learned, and the dependence of their apparent simplicity on their embodiment and context. Theories of operant and respondent condi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sanabria F,Killeen PR

更新日期：2005-05-31 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：:Although contexts play many roles during training and also during testing, over the last four decades theories of learning have predominantly focused on one or the other of the two families of functions served by contexts. In this selective review, we summarize recent data concerning these two functions and their inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Urcelay GP,Miller RR

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:We investigated the use of extramaze and intramaze cues on the eight-arm radial maze. The rats received daily training consisting of forced-choice visits to four baited arms, a retention interval, and the availability of all eight arms with baits available at arms that did not appear in the forced-choice phase. The ra...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Babb SJ,Crystal JD

更新日期：2003-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that apes, dogs and horses seem to be able to attribute attentive states to humans. Subjects had to choose between two persons: one who was able to see the animal and one who was not. Using a similar paradigm, we tested a species that does not rely strongly on visual cues, the domestic pig ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Nawroth C,Ebersbach M,von Borell E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress has been shown to negatively affect the immune system, alter the body's metabolism, and play a strong role in the development of mood disorders. These effects are mainly driven through the release of hormones from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA). Additionally, women are more likely to be affected ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva CC,Lazzaretti C,Fontanive T,Dartora DR,Bauereis B,Gamaro GD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whom animals select to huddle with for thermoregulation. In this study, we investigated whom Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) mothers huddled with-their young offspring or other adult group members-when there is need for thermoregulation. We used a focal-animal sampling method, targeting 17 females at K...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ueno M,Nakamichi M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cooperation in groups that are allowed to communicate (engage in "cheap talk") has been attributed to reputation-building and to cultural norms or culturally normal behavior. We tested these two theories by exposing groups of undergraduates to a public-goods social dilemma. Five groups were permitted to comm...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Baum WM,Paciotti B,Richerson P,Lubell M,McElreath R

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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