Correction to: Conformism in the food processing techniques of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus).

abstract：:In the five-term, transitive inference task used with animals, pigeons are trained on four simultaneous discrimination premise pairs: A + B -, B + C -, C + D -, D + E -. Typically, when tested with the BD pair, most pigeons show a transitive inference effect, choosing B over D. Two non-inferential hypotheses have been...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Zentall TR,Peng D,Miles L

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:North African desert ants, Cataglyphis, use path integration to calculate a home vector during their foraging trips, constantly informing them about their position relative to the nest. This home vector is also used to find the way back to a productive feeding site the ant has encountered and thus memorized. When the ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pfeffer SE,Bolek S,Wolf H,Wittlinger M

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Following passive disorientation, Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) learned to search for a hidden food reward located in one corner of a rectangular-shaped enclosure that contained either identical or distinct features in each corner. Identical features allowed for explicit learning of geometric cues, wherea...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Reichert JF,Kelly DM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the neuropeptide oxytocin is involved in the regulation of several complex human social behaviours. There is, however, little research on the effect of oxytocin on basic mechanisms underlying human sociality, such as the perception of biological motion. In the present study, we investiga...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kovács K,Kis A,Kanizsár O,Hernádi A,Gácsi M,Topál J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates, and rays) have been hypothesized to use the geomagnetic field as a cue for orienting and navigating across a wide range of spatial scales. Magnetoreception has been demonstrated in many invertebrate and vertebrate taxa, including elasmobranchs, but this sensory modality and the cog...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Newton KC,Kajiura SM

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：: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：:Inequity aversion refers to an attempt to reduce a perceived discrepancy between one's own input and output ratio (i.e. ratio between work invested and rewards obtained) and that of others. It has been proposed that inequity aversion might also play a role in the decision-making process of other animals. One issue, ho...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ostojić L,Clayton NS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to discriminate between different quantities is widespread throughout the animal kingdom, and the underlying mechanisms of quantity discrimination are currently intensely discussed. In contrast, questions elucidating the limits of quantity estimation received rather little attention so far. Here, we examin...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Mehlis M,Thünken T,Bakker TC,Frommen JG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During play with a dog, humans commonly command the dog to engage in particular activities. How effective are commands during play, and do they serve as play signals? To answer this question, I examined commands issued to dogs by 21 familiar and 17 unfamiliar persons who played with a dog, and the dog's responses. Spe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Mitchell RW

更新日期：2021-01-20 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：: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：: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：:We examined whether cats have a cross-modal representation of humans, using a cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm originally used with dogs by Adachi et al. (Anim Cogn 10:17-21, 2007). We compared cats living in houses and in cat cafés to assess the potential effect of postnatal experience. Cats were presented w...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takagi S,Arahori M,Chijiiwa H,Saito A,Kuroshima H,Fujita K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are simple co-occurrences as well as functional relationships between events. One may assume that animals detect and use causation rather than mere co-variation. However, understanding causation often requires concepts of hidden forces. In string pulling, obstacles may hamper the access to food. Here, I studied ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pfuhl G

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific aggression between sibling species may enhance discrimination of competitors when recognition errors are costly, but proximate mechanisms mediating increased discriminative ability are unclear. We studied behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying responses to conspecific and heterospecific vocalization...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pasch B,Sanford R,Phelps SM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our society is sustained by wide-ranging cooperation. If individuals are sensitive to others' gains and losses as well as the amount of labor, they can ensure future beneficial cooperative interaction. However, it is still an open question whether nonhuman primates are sensitive to others' labor. We asked this questio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takimoto A,Fujita K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges of animal cognition research is overcoming anthropocentric sensory biases-in particular, favoring visual information and cues despite the dominance of other sensory cues in many nonhuman research subjects. As such, it is particularly important for animal cognition researchers to explicitly mentio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Horowitz A,Franks B

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic 3-D virtual environment was constructed for humans as an open-field analogue of Blaisdell and Cook's (2005) pigeon foraging task to determine if humans, like pigeons, were capable of integrating separate spatial maps. Participants used keyboard keys and a mouse to search for a hidden goal in a 4x4 grid of ra...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sturz BR,Bodily KD,Katz JS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faces are the most important body part for differentiating among human individuals by humans. Humans read the face as a whole, rather than looking at its parts, which makes it more difficult to recognise inverted faces than upright. Some other mammals also identify each other based on the upright face and take longer ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kawasaka K,Hotta T,Kohda M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of the human language faculty is the use of syntactic rules. The natural vocalizations of animals are syntactically simple, but several studies indicate that animals can detect and discriminate more complex structures in acoustic stimuli. However, how they discriminate such structures is often not clear. Us...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： van Heijningen CA,Chen J,van Laatum I,van der Hulst B,ten Cate C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group living confers ecological benefits, and the associated fitness gain may be positively related to the size of the group. Thus, the ability to discriminate numerical differences may confer important fitness advantages in social fish. There is evidence that this ability can be improved by behavioral interactions am...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bai Y,Tang ZH,Fu SJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Prosociality and acts of altruism are defined as behaviours which benefit another with either no gain or some immediate cost to the self. To understand the evolutionary origins of these behaviours, in recent years, studies have extended to primate species; however, studies on non-primates are still scarce. In light of...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Marshall-Pescini S,Dale R,Quervel-Chaumette M,Range F

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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