On the transfer of spatial learning between geometrically different shaped environments in the terrestrial toad, Rhinella arenarum.

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：: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：: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：:True tool use has been documented in some bird species, but to our knowledge, it has not been shown in woodpeckers. Here, we investigated the ability of Picoides major to open nuts of Juglans mandshurica by consistently inserting walnuts between tree branches in a specific position that facilitated nut opening. As see...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Yi X,Steele MA,Shen Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Learning about food palatability from watching what conspecifics eat might be one of the advantages of group living. A previous study investigated whether group members' presence or eating activity account for social facilitation of eating of foods never previously tasted. Capuchins encountered novel colored foods whe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Addessi E,Visalberghi E

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-trial learning and long-term memory of "what" and "who" information were examined in an adult gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). We presented the gorilla with a to-be-remembered food item at the time of study. In Experiment 1, following a retention interval of either approximately 7 min or 24 h, the gorilla res...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Schwartz BL,Colon MR,Sanchez IC,Rodriguez IA,Evans S

更新日期：2002-06-01 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

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：:Sound categorisation plays a crucial role for processing ecological and social stimuli in a species' natural environment. To explore the discrimination and evaluation of sound stimuli in human babies and nonhuman primates, a reciprocal habituation-dishabituation paradigm has been successfully introduced into auditory ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Konerding WS,Brunke J,Schehka S,Zimmermann E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments explored the duration of dogs' working memory in an object permanence task: a delay was introduced between the disappearance of a moving object behind a box and the beginning of the search by the animal. In experiment 1, the dogs were tested with retention intervals of 0, 10, 30, and 60 s. Results reve...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Fiset S,Beaulieu C,Landry F

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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：:Pigs are a valuable animal model for studying neurodevelopment in humans due to similarities in brain structure and growth. The development and validation of behavioral tests to assess learning and memory in neonatal piglets are needed. The present study evaluated the capability of 2-week old piglets to acquire a nove...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Elmore MR,Dilger RN,Johnson RW

更新日期：2012-07-01 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 to learn through imitation is thought to be the basis of cultural transmission and was long considered a distinctive characteristic of humans. There is now evidence that both mammals and birds are capable of imitation. However, nothing is known about these abilities in the third amniotic class-reptiles. He...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kis A,Huber L,Wilkinson A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theories suggest that ecology is a major factor shaping cognition in primates. However, there have been few systematic tests of spatial memory abilities involving multiple primate species. Here, we examine spatial memory skills in four strepsirrhine primates that vary in level of frugivory: ruffed lemurs ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Rosati AG,Rodriguez K,Hare B

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Many wild primates occupy large home ranges and travel long distances each day. Navigating these ranges to find sufficient food presents a substantial cognitive challenge, but we are still far from understanding either how primates represent spatial information mentally or how they use this information to navigate und...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Di Fiore A,Suarez SA

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:In many species, males and females have different reproductive roles and/or differ in their ecological niche. Since in these cases the two sexes often face different cognitive challenges, selection may promote some degree of cognitive differentiation, an issue that has received relatively little attention so far. We i...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Lucon-Xiccato T,Bisazza A

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Visual lateralization in different aspects of social behaviour has been found for numerous species of vertebrates ranging from fish to mammals. For inspection of a shoal mate, many fishes show a left eye-right hemisphere preference. Here, we tested the hypothesis that in fish, there is a key cue in the conspecific app...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Karenina KA,Giljov AN,Malashichev YB

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Some nonhuman species demonstrate metamemory, the ability to monitor and control memory. Here, we identify memory signals that control metamemory judgments in rhesus monkeys by directly comparing performance in two metamemory paradigms while holding the availability of one memory signal constant and manipulating anoth...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Brown EK,Basile BM,Templer VL,Hampton RR

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:The issue whether non-human primates have other-regarding preference and/or inequity aversion has been under debate. We investigated whether tufted capuchin monkeys are sensitive to others' reward in various experimental food sharing settings. Two monkeys faced each other. The operator monkey chose one of two food con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takimoto A,Kuroshima H,Fujita K

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gleaning information is a way for foragers to adjust their behavior in order to maximize their fitness. Information decreases the uncertainty about the environment and could help foragers to accurately estimate environmental characteristics. In a patchy resource, information sampled during previous patch visits is eff...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Louâpre P,Pierre JS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00