Pheromone cue triggers switch between vectors in the desert harvest ant, Veromessor pergandei.

abstract：:When trained in a rectangular arena, some research has suggested that rats are guided by local features rather than overall boundary geometry. We explored this hypothesis using the terrestrial toad, Rhinella arenarum, as a comparative contrast. In two experiments, toads were trained to find a water-reward goal locatio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Sotelo MI,Alcalá JA,Bingman VP,Muzio RN

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish is an ideal vertebrate model for neurobehavioral studies with translational relevance to humans. Many aspects of sleep have been studied, but we still do not understand how and why sleep deprivation alters behavioral and physiological processes. A number of hypotheses suggest its role in memory consolida...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pinheiro-da-Silva J,Silva PF,Nogueira MB,Luchiari AC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful navigation within an environment requires that the traveler establish the correct heading--a process referred to as orienting. Many studies have now shown that humans and non-human animals can use the geometric properties of an enclosure to orient. In the present study, two groups of Clark's nutcrackers (Nu...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kelly DM

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:When animals show both frequent innovation and fast social learning, new behaviours can spread more rapidly through populations and potentially increase rates of natural selection and speciation, as proposed by A.C. Wilson in his behavioural drive hypothesis. Comparative work on primates suggests that more innovative ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bouchard J,Goodyer W,Lefebvre L

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work is part of a decade-long study on the spontaneous use of stones for cracking hard-shelled nuts by a semi-free-ranging group of brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Nutcracking events are frequently watched by other individuals--usually younger, less proficient, and that are well tolerated to the poi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ottoni EB,de Resende BD,Izar P

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Many animal species use a variety of cognitive strategies to locate food resources. One strategy is to make inferences by exclusion, i.e., perceiving the absence of reward as a cue that another location should be investigated. The use of such advanced cognitive strategies may be more prominent in species that are know...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Petit O,Dufour V,Herrenschmidt M,De Marco A,Sterck EH,Call J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Acquiring information about stimuli that predict danger, through either direct experience or inference from a social context, is crucial for individuals' ability to generate appropriate behaviors in response to threats. Utilizing a modified demonstrator-observer paradigm (fear conditioning by proxy) that allows for fr...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jones CE,Monfils MH

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Fish move in a three-dimensional environment in which it is important to discriminate between stimuli varying in colour, size, and shape. It is also advantageous to be able to recognize the same structures or individuals when presented from different angles, such as back to front or front to side. This study assessed ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Schluessel V,Kraniotakes H,Bleckmann H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are characterized by complex social cognitive abilities that emerge early in development. Comparative studies of nonhuman primates can illuminate the evolutionary history of these social capacities. We examined the cognitive skills that rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) use to follow gaze, a foundational skill in...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bettle R,Rosati AG

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:The emergence of novel behavior is a multilayered phenomenon that comprehends distinct processes. One such process is known as insightful problem solving. "Insight" can be explained as the spontaneous interconnection of previously acquired behavioral repertoires. The objective of this study was to investigate: (1) whe...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Neves Filho HB,de Carvalho Neto MB,Taytelbaum GP,Malheiros RD,Knaus YC

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the cognitive mechanisms underlying animal behavior, and they have become increasingly skillful at adapting methodologies to test multiple species. M...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： MacLean EL,Matthews LJ,Hare BA,Nunn CL,Anderson RC,Aureli F,Brannon EM,Call J,Drea CM,Emery NJ,Haun DB,Herrmann E,Jacobs LF,Platt ML,Rosati AG,Sandel AA,Schroepfer KK,Seed AM,Tan J,van Schaik CP,Wobber V

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One model of signal evolution is based on the notion that behaviours become increasingly detached from their original biological functions to obtain a communicative value. Selection may not always favour the evolution of such transitions, for instance, if signalling is costly due to predators usurping signal productio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dahl CD,Wyss C,Zuberbühler K,Bachmann I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orienting responses (ORs) are whole-organism reflexes that are elicited by innocuous stimuli, and which decrease in magnitude after stimulus repetition. ORs represent relatively simple responses that can be used to study attentional processes, and are modulated by the organism's state, including arousal and activation...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： do Nascimento BG,Oliveira HSTOE,Silva HTL,de Siqueira-Silva DH,Lima-Maximino M,Maximino C

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Great apes can use multiple tools to extract food embedded in substrates and can invent new ways to exploit those resources. We tested five bonobos, five chimpanzees, and six orangutans in a task in which they had to use (and modify) a tool as a straw to drink the juice located inside a container. Experiment 1 showed ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Manrique HM,Call J

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：:An adult California sea lion ( Zalophus californianus) with extensive experience in performing discrimination learning tasks was tested to evaluate her long-term memory for two previously learned concepts. An associative concept, that of equivalence classification, was retested after a retention interval of approximat...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Reichmuth Kastak C,Schusterman RJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and nonhuman primates can learn about the organization of stimuli in the environment using implicit sequential pattern learning capabilities. However, most previous artificial grammar learning studies with nonhuman primates have involved relatively simple grammars and short input sequences. The goal in the curr...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Heimbauer LA,Conway CM,Christiansen MH,Beran MJ,Owren MJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imitation can be defined as the copying of behavior. To a biologist, interest in imitation is focused on its adaptive value for the survival of the organism, but to a psychologist, the mechanisms responsible for imitation are the most interesting. For psychologists, the most important cases of imitation are those that...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Zentall TR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined whether non-human tool-users understand the properties that are relevant for a tool's function. We tested cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on an expectancy violation procedure designed to assess whether these species make distinctions between the fun...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Santos LR,Miller CT,Hauser MD

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00