Harte, Colin Barnes-Holmes, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne McEnteggart, Ciara
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Learning & Behavior
Recent developments in relational frame theory (RFT) have outlined a number of key variables of potential importance when analyzing the dynamics involved in derived relational responding. Recent research has begun to explore the impact of a number of these variables on persistent rule-following, namely, levels of derivation and coherence. However, ...
Mueller, Peyton M. Zentall, Thomas R.
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Learning & Behavior
In the midsession reversal task, pigeons are trained on a simultaneous two-alternative discrimination in which S1 is correct for the first half of the session and S2 is correct for the second half of the session. Optimally, pigeons should choose S1 until it stops being correct and choose S2 afterward. Instead, pigeons anticipate S2 too early and co...
Boakes, Robert A. Wu, Jiahao
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Learning & Behavior
When rats are given daily sessions of access to activity wheels, the amount that they run can increase over sessions. In addition to the suggestion that this could indicate the development of an addiction, there are alternative explanations. The present study tested whether running at a fixed time of day (ToD) might allow stronger entrainment of ci...
Wright, Barlow C
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Learning & behavior
Transitive Inference (deduce B > D from B > C and C > D) can help us to understand other areas of sociocognitive development. Across three experiments, learning, memory, and the validity of two transitive paradigms were investigated. In Experiment 1 (N = 121), 7-year-olds completed a three-term nontraining task or a five-term task requiring extensi...
Osmanski, Michael S. Seki, Yoshimasa Dooling, Robert J.
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Learning & Behavior
Budgerigars ( Melopsittacus undulatus ) are small Australian parrots with a well-documented, learned vocal repertoire and a high degree of vocal production learning. These birds live in large, social flocks and they vocally interact with each other in a dynamic, reciprocal manner. We assume that budgerigars must process and integrate a wide variety...
Zentall, Thomas R.
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Learning & Behavior
The ephemeral reward task consists of giving an animal a choice between two distinctive stimuli, A and B (e.g., black and white), on each of which is placed a bit of food. If the animal chooses the food on A, it gets that reinforcer, but the other stimulus, B, is removed, and the trial is over. If it chooses the food on B, however, it gets that foo...
Baciadonna, Luigi Cornero, Francesca M. Emery, Nathan J. Clayton, Nicola S.
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Learning & Behavior
Pioneering research on avian behaviour and cognitive neuroscience have highlighted that avian species, mainly corvids and parrots, have a cognitive tool kit comparable with apes and other large-brained mammals, despite conspicuous differences in their neuroarchitecture. This cognitive tool kit is driven by convergent evolution, and consists of comp...
Güntürkün, Onur
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Learning & Behavior
Nieder, Wagener, & Rinnert ( Science, 369 (6511), 1626–1629, 2020 ) demonstrated that some neurons in a prefrontal-like brain area of carrion crows signal neither the physical stimulus nor the intended action but the upcoming choice. This pattern of results implies that neural computations for consciousness can be generated by nonmammalian brains i...
Kelly, Debbie M. Guillette, Lauren M.
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Learning & Behavior
Schwing, R. Meaux, E. Piseddu, A. Huber, L. Noë, R.
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Learning & Behavior
Animal cooperation in the wild often involves multiple individuals that must tolerate each other in close proximity. However, most cooperation experiments in the lab are done with two animals, that are often also physically separated. Such experiments are useful for answering some pertinent questions, for example about the understanding of the role...
