Standing on shoulders of a giant: Marcia Spetch's contributions to the study of spatial reorientation.

abstract：:Ranging, the ability to judge the distance to a sound source, depends on the presence of predictable patterns of attenuation. We measured long-range sound propagation in coastal waters to assess whether humpback whales might use frequency degradation cues to range singing whales. Two types of neural networks, a multi-...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mercado E 3rd,Green SR,Schneider JN

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a simulated open-field situation we tried to obtain information about the ability of tomcats to distinguish between urine marks of differing ages. Reactions to these marks were sniffing, sniffing intensively and "Flehmen". The variables we chose to demonstrate a possible discriminatory ability between urine marks o...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： De Boer JN

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that a relatively small number of perceptual skills underlie human perception of music and speech. Humans and songbirds share a number of features in the development of their auditory communication systems. These similarities invite comparisons between species in their auditory perceptual skills. Here, we s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weisman R,Hoeschele M,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of tool or tool-like food processing behaviours can render animals vulnerable to theft (kleptoparasitism) because (1) large, nutritious items are usually involved, (2) value is added to the food due to long and/or complex handling, and (3) physical control of items is often temporarily lost during handling. In...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Morand-Ferron J,Veillette M,Lefebvre L

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms exhibit diverse anti-predator tactics, influenced by genetics and prior experience. In ectothermic taxa, offspring phenotypes are often sensitive to developmental temperatures. If the effectiveness of alternative anti-predator responses depends on thermally sensitive traits, then the temperatures experi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hagman M,Löwenborg K,Shine R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether rats' responding for liquid-sucrose reinforcement delivered by a progressive-ratio (PR) schedule would be altered by the addition of food-pellet reinforcement available subsequent to the PR schedule. In Experiment 1, six rats lever pressed for 1% sucrose reinforcers delivered by ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weatherly JN,King BM,Uran EL

更新日期：2003-06-30 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：:According to sexual selection theory, age affects the preference of mate choice, and this preference ultimately influences the fecundity of the female. Pardosa pseudoannulata (Araneae: Lycosidae) is a valued predator in many cropping systems. By determining oviposition rate, egg hatching rate, and also the number and ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jiang X,Zhao Y,Yan Q,Li C,Jiang Q,Yun Y,Peng Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dyads of adult male Gryllus bimaculatus, a dominance relationship is established at the first agonistic interaction between the two insects. The comparison of the aggressive behaviour displayed by adult males shows that field crickets act in an identical manner when confronted with an unfamiliar opponent or with on...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Khazraie K,Campan M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to discriminate short or long durations of houselight illumination using a choice procedure. During the test phase of each trial, the left and right levers were presented with an auditory cue above one of them on (cued lever) while the other was off (uncued lever). The auditory cue was presented imme...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Santi A,Stanford L,Coyle J

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:The effect of tail-pinch stress interpolated between the saccharin conditioned stimulus (CS) and the illness-inducing unconditioned stimulus (US) during long-trace taste-aversion conditioning was examined in young- and old adult rats with a two-cylinder (saccharin versus water) test. A 2 x 2 x 4 factorial ANOVA was pe...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Misanin JR,Kaufhold SE,Paul RL,Hinderliter CF,Anderson MJ

更新日期：2006-01-10 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：:Pigeons were trained in a matching-to-duration task using short and long filled intervals. Group 2/8 was trained with 2- and 8-s intervals, Group 4/10 with 4- and 10-s intervals, and group marker with 2- and 8-s intervals presented between 1-s start and stop markers. Extended-delay testing showed no significant choose...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Talarico DC,Grant DS

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A biobehavioural analysis of activity anorexia suggests that the motivation for physical activity is regulated by food supply and body weight. In the present experiment, food allocation was varied within subjects by prefeeding food-deprived rats 0, 5, 10 and 15 g of food before sessions of lever pressing for wheel-run...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Belke TW,Pierce WD,Jensen K

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in anurans have shown that ablation of the whole telencephalon (or the caudal striatum) abolishes visual prey-catching behavior, whereas an additional lesion to the pretectum leads to hyperexcited, "disinhibited" prey-catching. This suggests a disinhibitory gating/arousal function mediated by two inhibitory pr...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Matsumoto N,Schwippert WW,Beneke TW,Ewert JP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic chicks selected for high and low locomotor activity in a novel environment have low and high levels of fearfulness, respectively. Using four commonly employed methods of estimating fear, namely emergence, open-field, response to a bell and tonic immobility tests, we found a similar effect in lines of Japanese...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Jones RB,Bessei W,Faure JM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-place learning based on food association was investigated in eight food-restricted Nile tilapias. Each fish was individually housed for 10 days in an experimental tank for adjustments to laboratory conditions, and fed daily in excess. Feeding was then interrupted for 17 days. Training was then started, based on a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Delicio HC,Barreto RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequential choice model (SCM) proposes that latencies to accept options presented alone can be used to predict preferences between these options when they are presented simultaneously. SCM has been proposed and tested in experiments where only two alternatives were present. To further challenge the model, we train...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vasconcelos M,Monteiro T,Aw J,Kacelnik A

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Birds gather visual information through scanning behavior to make decisions relevant for survival (e.g., detecting predators and finding food). The goal of this study was (a) to review some visual properties involved in scanning behavior (retinal specialization for visual resolution and motion detection, visual acuity...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fernández-Juricic E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Hursh and Silberberg (2008) have advanced a behavior-economic approach to measure the value of reinforcers, in which demand elasticity is measured relative to the point at which price is zero, a technique that allows for comparisons across reinforcers that show different consumption patterns or across differ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Oliveira-Castro JM,Foxall GR,Yan J,Wells VK

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant African pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) have been employed successfully in two operational tuberculosis-detection projects in which they sniff sputum samples from symptomatic individuals who have visited tuberculosis clinics. The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in this population is high, approximately 2...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Edwards TL,Ellis H,Watkins EE,Mulder C,Mgode G,Cox C,Poling A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a bidirectional control procedure, rats had their first opportunity to push a joystick immediately after observing, from an adjacent compartment, the joystick moving 50 times either to the right or to the left, with each movement signalling the delivery of inaccessible food. Half of these animals observed the joyst...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Heyes CM,Jaldow E,Nokes T,Dawson GR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments indicated the effects of an early bilateral stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus on later learning behaviour of male rats. The animals were stimulated at 15 days of age and tested during the sixth week of life. Stimulated rats showed an improvement of performances in acquisition of a food-reinforc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Velley L,Manciet G,Cardo B

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of schedules of reinforcement on the development of superstitious conditioning was investigated in a college age population. Participants were randomly assigned to one of eight operant schedules and instructed to remove (escape), prevent and/or remove (avoidance and escape) or produce (positive) the appearanc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bloom CM,Venard J,Harden M,Seetharaman S

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：:Natural cycles of light and darkness shift the balance of risks and gains for animals across space and time. Entrainment to photic cycles allows animals to spatiotemporally adapt their behavioural and physiological processes in line with interplaying ecological factors, such as temperature, foraging efficiency and pre...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hart EE,Fennessy J,Hauenstein S,Ciuti S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

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