Does a cichlid fish process face holistically? Evidence of the face inversion effect.

abstract：:Locating food and refuge is essential for an animal's survival. However, little is known how mammals navigate under natural conditions and cope with given environmental constraints. In a series of six experiments, I investigated landmark-based navigation in free-ranging Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Vlasak AN

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Visual search asymmetry has been used as an important tool for exploring cognitive mechanisms in humans. Here, we examined visual search asymmetry in two macaques toward two types of stimulus: the orientation of line stimuli and face-like stimuli. In the experiment, the monkeys were required to detect an odd target am...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Nakata R,Eifuku S,Tamura R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the amount of rivals is crucial to optimally adjust investment into a contest. If laboratory animals show numerical abilities, little is known about the ecological implications particularly in young animals. The two to nine barn owl (Tyto alba) siblings vocally compete for priority of access to food resource...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ruppli CA,Dreiss AN,Roulin A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By distinguishing the attentional cues of their mates, animals can learn what part of their environment is of potential interest. However, recognizing the attentional states of others through auditory perception appears to be difficult, since these states are generally not accompanied by ostensive signals liable to re...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Costes-Thiré M,Levé M,Uhlrich P,De Marco A,Thierry B

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Although the Piagetian framework has been used by numerous researchers to compare cognitive abilities of diverse species, the system is often criticized as implemented. I examine the various criticisms, suggest ways in which the system can be improved, and argue for the need for descriptive systems such as the Piageti...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pepperberg IM

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：: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：:Self-control has been shown to be linked with being cooperative and successful in humans and with the g-factor in chimpanzees. As such, it is likely to play an important role in all forms of problem-solving. Self-control, however, does not just vary across individuals but seems also to be dependent on the ecological n...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Range F,Brucks D,Virányi Z

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:An overview of mechanistic and functional accounts of stimulus generalisation is given. Mechanistic accounts rely on the process of spreading activation across units representing stimuli. Different models implement the spread in different ways, ranging from diffusion to connectionist networks. A functional account pro...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Cheng K

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Because most learning studies in cephalopods have been performed on octopods, it remains unclear whether such abilities are specific to octopus, or whether they correlate with having a larger and more centrally organized brain. To investigate associative learning in a different cephalopod, six sexually mature cuttlefi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Cole PD,Adamo SA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social animals should have plenty of opportunities to learn from conspecifics, but most studies have failed to document social learning in horses. This study investigates whether young Icelandic horses can learn a spatial detour task through observation of a trained demonstrator horse of either the same age (Experimen...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Rørvang MV,Ahrendt LP,Christensen JW

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：: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：:Overmarking occurs when one individual places its scent mark directly on top of the scent mark of another individual. Although it is almost ubiquitous among terrestrial mammals, we know little about the function of overmarking. In addition, almost all studies on mammalian overmarking behaviour dealt with adult individ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pluháček J,Tučková V,King SRB,Šárová R

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms underlying gesture acquisition in primates are largely unstudied, yet heavily debated. While some studies suggest that gestural repertoires are largely innate, others emphasize that gestures emerge and are shaped in social interactions with other conspecifics. There is agreement, however, regarding the negl...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Liebal K,Schneider C,Errson-Lembeck M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the effects of lead pollution have been well studied in vertebrates, it is unclear to what extent lead may negatively affect insect cognition. Lead pollution in soils can elevate lead in plant tissues, suggesting it could negatively affect neural development of insect herbivores. We used the cabbage white butter...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Philips KH,Kobiela ME,Snell-Rood EC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, Kuroshima and colleagues demonstrated that capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) learned to discriminate between a "knower" who inspected a box for food, and a "guesser" who did not. The aim of the present study was to specify whether the subjects learned a simple conditional discrimination or a causal ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kuroshima H,Fujita K,Adachi I,Iwata K,Fuyuki A

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Using Cotesia vestalis, a parasitoid wasp of diamondback moth larvae and three crucifer plant species (cabbage, komatsuna, and Japanese radish), we examined the effects of exposure to host-infested plant volatiles from one plant species on a newly emerged wasp's subsequent olfactory cognition of host-infested plant vo...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Yoneya K,Uefune M,Takabayashi J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the influence of different procedures on chimpanzees' performance in object-choice tasks, five adult chimpanzees were tested using three experimenter-given cues to food location: gazing, glancing, and pointing. These cues were delivered to the subjects in an identical fashion but were deployed within the con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Barth J,Reaux JE,Povinelli DJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the high variability in predation risk through space and time, prey have to continuously update information about the risk level posed by predators. Despite numerous studies focusing on temporal risk assessment, we know very little about how individuals deal with information regarding changes in risk level of a...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ferrari MC,Chivers DP

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:The trap-tube problem is used to assess whether an individual is able to foresee the outcome of its actions. To solve the task, an animal must use a tool to push a piece of food out of a tube, which has a trap along its length. An animal may learn to avoid the trap through a rule based on associative processes, e.g. u...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Tebbich S,Seed AM,Emery NJ,Clayton NS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chameleons are arboreal lizards with highly independent, large amplitude eye movements. In response to an approaching threat, a chameleon on a vertical pole moves so as to keep itself away from the threat. In so doing, it shifts between monocular and binocular scanning of the threat and of the environment. We analyzed...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lustig A,Keter-Katz H,Katzir G

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs' production of referential communicative signals, i.e., showing, has gained increasing scientific interest over the last years. In this paper, we investigate whether shared information about the present and the past affects success and form of dog-human interactions. Second, in the context of showing, owners have...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Henschel M,Winters J,Müller TF,Bräuer J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

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