abstract：:There is a vast literature on the behavioural effects of partial reinforcement in Pavlovian conditioning. Compared with animals receiving continuous reinforcement, partially rewarded animals typically show (a) a slower development of the conditioned response (CR) early in training and (b) a higher asymptotic level of ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Anselme P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subterranean termites live underground and build tunnel networks to obtain food and nesting space. After obtaining food, termites return to their nests to transfer it. The efficiency of termite movement through the tunnels is directly connected to their survival. Tunnels should therefore be optimized to ensure highly ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sim S,Kang SH,Lee SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research suggested that 16-week old dog pups, but not wolf pups, show attachment behaviour to a human caregiver. Attachment to a caregiver in dog pups has been demonstrated by differential responding to a caregiver compared to a stranger in the Ainsworth Strange Situation Test. We show here that 3-7 week old ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hall NJ,Lord K,Arnold AM,Wynne CD,Udell MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Carnivora, play behaviour is usually made up of motor patterns characteristic of predatory, agonistic and courtship behaviour. Domestic dogs are unusual in that play is routinely performed by adults, both socially, with conspecifics and with humans, and also asocially, with objects. This enhanced playfulness...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bradshaw JW,Pullen AJ,Rooney NJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aposematic prey advertise their toxicity to predators using conspicuous warning signals, which predators learn to use to reduce their intake of toxic prey. Like other types of prey, aposematic prey often differ in body size, both within and between species. Increasing body size can increase signal size, which make lar...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Smith KE,Halpin CG,Rowe C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone and cortisol are hormones expected to play a major role in competitive behaviours (i.e. aggression), and are related to rank and hierarchical stability. Through a non-invasive technique, we analyzed faecal testosterone (FTM(1)) and cortisol (FCM(2)) metabolites of dominant and subordinate males from two w...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mendonça-Furtado O,Edaes M,Palme R,Rodrigues A,Siqueira J,Izar P

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The way animals move through space is likely to affect the way they learn and remember spatial information. For example, a pelagic fish, Astyanax fasciatus, moves freely in vertical and horizontal space and encodes information from both dimensions with similar accuracy. Benthic fish can also move with six degrees of f...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Davis VA,Holbrook RI,Schumacher S,Guilford T,de Perera TB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The territorial defense of mating sites by males should be favored when female monopolization is possible. Such monopolization should occur in species in which females emerge asynchronously, since males may have time to copulate with one female before the arrival of other. However, regions with smaller reproductive wi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Peixoto PE,Medina AM,Mendoza-Cuenca L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that humans' response to a single stimulus (S1) is determined by what follows S1's associates. The experiment used a sensory preconditioning (SPC) design where S1 was associated with both S2 and S3 on separate trials before establishing relationships between these latter stimuli with an ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Craddock P,Renaux C,Lefèvre F,Nelson JB,Molet M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to an infant crying with an increase in cortisol level and heightened alertness, a response interpreted as emotional contagion, a primitive form of empathy. Previous results are mixed when examining whether dogs might respond similarly to human distress. We examined whether domestic dogs, which have a l...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Yong MH,Ruffman T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambient temperature and air pressure are relevant stimuli that can elicit hormonal responses in alignment with adjusting individuals' physiology and behaviour. This study investigated possible changes in corticosterone (C) and testosterone (T) and contingencies with behaviour in response to ambient temperature and air...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dorn S,Wascher CA,Möstl E,Kotrschal K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allosuckling, the suckling of offspring from females other than their own mother, has been reported in a number of mammalian species, including reindeer. The causes and function of this behaviour are still being investigated. We monitored 25 doe-calf pairs of semi-domestic reindeer Rangifer tarandus over 10 weeks to t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Engelhardt SC,Weladji RB,Holand Ø,de Rioja CM,Ehmann RK,Nieminen M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments using rats in an appetitive conditioning procedure analyzed the effect of short and long (50s vs. 1440s) intertrial intervals (ITI) over the acquisition of conditioned stimulus (CS), context (Ctxt), and unconditioned stimulus (US) associations, as well as the effect on the extinction and renewal of t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carranza-Jasso R,Urcelay GP,Nieto J,Sánchez-Carrasco L

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, traffic noise has become a new challenge for efficient animal communication and several studies suggest that it is involved in population declines. Although poorly investigated in a traffic noise context, communication is generally multimodal, which can be viewed as a way to improve communication ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Troïanowski M,Melot G,Lengagne T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For food-hoarding strategies to be maintained in a population, the benefits of hoarding must outweigh the costs. If rewards are too low to offset the costs of hoarding, hoarders might be expected to abandon hoarding and/or shift to an alternative storing strategy (e.g., increase food consumption). However the ability ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Luo Y,Yang Z,Steele MA,Zhang Z,Stratford JA,Zhang H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forced Swimming Test (FST) models behavioural despair in animals by loss of motivation to respond or the refusal to escape. The present study characterizes the behavioural responses of 12-month-old male 3xTg-AD mice in FST as compared to age-matched no-transgenic (NTg) mice. Paradoxical results were consistently found...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Torres-Lista V,Giménez-Llort L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pigeons and eight chickens received autoshaping training where a keylight (conditioned stimulus) signaled response-independent deliveries of water (unconditioned stimulus). Pigeons drink while keeping their beaks submerged in water and moving their beaks to create suction ("mumbling"), whereas chickens drink by t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ploog BO

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice are emerging as an important behavioral model for studies of auditory perception and acoustic communication. These mammals frequently produce ultrasonic vocalizations, although the details of how these vocalizations are used for communication are not entirely understood. An important step in determining how they ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Radziwon KE,Dent ML

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether dogs that exhibit stereotypy also show higher behavioral persistence in an extinction-learning task. Thirteen pet dogs with stereotypy and 13 breed-matched control dogs were assessed on a resistance to extinction test. Each dog was trained for 40 trials using a food...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Protopopova A,Hall NJ,Wynne CD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual cannibalism is a widespread phenomenon among a few animal taxa. Its occurrence is interpreted as female and/or male optimal reproductive decisions or as a non-adaptive side effect of selection for efficiently foraging females. In spite of the amount of research addressed at understanding its evolutionary origin...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fernández-Montraveta C,González JM,Cuadrado M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propositional models of associative learning postulate that the behavioral impact of regularities in the presence of two events is mediated by the formation of propositions about the relation between these events. Because the mere statistical contingency between events often does not provide enough information to infe...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： De Houwer J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although contexts play many roles during training and also during testing, over the last four decades theories of learning have predominantly focused on one or the other of the two families of functions served by contexts. In this selective review, we summarize recent data concerning these two functions and their inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Urcelay GP,Miller RR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discounting occurs when the subjective value of an outcome decreases because its delivery is either delayed or uncertain. Discounting has been widely studied because of its ubiquitous nature. Research from our laboratory has demonstrated that rates of discounting are systematically altered by several different factors...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weatherly JN

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:We trained rats in a context discrimination paradigm by pairing a sucrose solution with lithium chloride in one context (conditioning context) and simple exposure to the same fluid in a second (neutral) context to establish a context-dependent aversion to the conditioned fluid. We then investigated whether transfer of...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Iguchi Y,Fukumoto K,Sawa K,Ishii K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence of previously reinforced responding was investigated in male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). Swimming through a ring produced 15-s mirror presentations according to, with different fish, either a fixed-ratio 1 or a variable-interval 60-s schedule of reinforcement. When responding was stable, a diff...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva SP,Cançado CR,Lattal KA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress has been shown to negatively affect the immune system, alter the body's metabolism, and play a strong role in the development of mood disorders. These effects are mainly driven through the release of hormones from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA). Additionally, women are more likely to be affected ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva CC,Lazzaretti C,Fontanive T,Dartora DR,Bauereis B,Gamaro GD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timing and prediction error learning have historically been treated as independent processes, but growing evidence has indicated that they are not orthogonal. Timing emerges at the earliest time point when conditioned responses are observed, and temporal variables modulate prediction error learning in both simple cond...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kirkpatrick K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we present electroencephalographic (EEG) recording data obtained in correlation with timing behavior in rats trained in a 30-s peak interval (PI) procedure. The distribution of lever press responses was found to be Gaussian, peaking at approximately 30s: lever pressing behavior increased for 30s then de...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hattori M,Sakata S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interruptions and unfamiliar events (distracters) during a timed signal disrupt (delay) timing in humans and other animals. We hypothesized that repeated exposure to a stimulus may reduce its subsequent time-disrupting properties. To test this hypothesis rats were trained in a reversed peak-interval (RPI) procedure, i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Buhusi CV,Matthews AR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contingency, and more particularly temporal contingency, has often figured in thinking about the nature of learning. However, it has never been formally defined in such a way as to make it a measure that can be applied to most animal learning protocols. We use elementary information theory to define contingency in suc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gallistel CR,Craig AR,Shahan TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In delay discounting, choice is between two reinforcers that differ in amount and delay, and the subjective value of either reinforcer decreases as a function of delay to its receipt. The steepness of the discounting function is thought to reflect the degree of impulsive choice. Many factors can influence impulsive ch...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Huskinson SL,Anderson KG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research investigated the blocking effect in three different species, rats, humans and snails in formally equivalent tasks using a within-subjects design. Experiment 1 demonstrated the blocking effect in a context-flavour aversive conditioning preparation in rats: Animals failed to associate a flavour with...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Prados J,Alvarez B,Acebes F,Loy I,Sansa J,Moreno-Fernández MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a widely accepted vocabulary referring to various types of social learning has made important contributions to decades of progress in analyzing the role of socially acquired information in the development of behavioral repertoires. It is argued here that emergence of a consensus vocabulary, while facili...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galef BG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult participants played computerised games of "Paper Scissors Rock". Participants in one group were told that they were playing against the computer, and those in the other group were told that they were playing against another participant in the adjacent room. The participant who won the most games would receive a ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lie C,Baxter J,Alsop B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird songs have evolved under sexual selection pressure. Songs include multiple features that are subject to female preference, but recent comparative research has indicated evolutionary tradeoffs between song performance and complexity in some species. Trill, a repetition of the same sound, is a performance-related s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kagawa H,Soma M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal parental care plays an important role in the development of offspring behavior, but little is known about the effect of post-weaning contact between offspring and parents on locomotory, social and parental behavior. Here, we explore this concept using socially monogamous mandarin voles (Microtus mandarinus). ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wu R,Song Z,Tai F,Wang L,Kong L,Wang J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In temperate songbirds, song has traditionally been considered a vocalization mainly produced by males. However, in many temperate species, it is now recognized that both males and females produce song. The function and structure of male black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee song have been well-studied...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hahn AH,Krysler A,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Recent research in the behavioral decision making literature has demonstrated that humans hyperbolically discount the subjective value of options as the number of options increases (Reed et al., 2012). These findings provide a cognitive-behavioral synthesis of the "choice overload" phenomenon, also known as the "parad...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kaplan BA,Reed DD

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00