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Author Rilling, M.E.; Neiworth, J.J. openurl 
  Title How animals use images Type Journal Article
  Year 1991 Publication Science Progress Abbreviated Journal Sci Prog  
  Volume 75 Issue 298 Pt 3-4 Pages 439-452  
  Keywords Animals; Association Learning; Columbidae; *Concept Formation; *Imagination; *Mental Recall; Motion Perception; Problem Solving; *Thinking; *Visual Perception  
  Abstract Animal cognition is a field within experimental psychology in which cognitive processes formerly studied exclusively with people have been demonstrated in animals. Evidence for imagery in the pigeon emerges from the experiments described here. The pigeon's task was to discriminate, by pecking the appropriate choice key, between a clock hand presented on a video screen that rotated clockwise with constant velocity from a clock hand that violated constant velocity. Imagery was defined by trials on which the line rotated from 12.00 o'clock to 3.00 o'clock, then disappeared during a delay, and reappeared at a final stop location beyond 3.00 o'clock. After acquisition of a discrimination with final stop locations at 3.00 o'clock and 6.00 o'clock, the evidence for imagery was the accurate responding of the pigeons to novel locations at 4.00 o'clock and 7.00 o'clock. Pigeons display evidence of imagery by transforming a representation of movement that includes a series of intermediate steps which accurately represent the location of a moving stimulus after it disappears.  
  Address Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824  
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  ISSN (up) 0036-8504 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:1842858 Approved no  
  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2831  
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Author de Waal, F.B. openurl 
  Title The end of nature versus nurture Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication Scientific American Abbreviated Journal Sci Am  
  Volume 281 Issue 6 Pages 94-99  
  Keywords Animals; *Behavior; Behavior, Animal; Ecology; *Environment; Ethology; Evolution; Female; *Genetics; Humans; Instinct; Learning; Male; Sex Characteristics; Twin Studies  
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  Address Living Links Center, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Atlanta, USA  
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  ISSN (up) 0036-8733 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:10614071 Approved no  
  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 192  
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Author Rizzolatti, G.; Fogassi, L.; Gallese, V. openurl 
  Title Mirrors of the mind Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Scientific American Abbreviated Journal Sci Am  
  Volume 295 Issue 5 Pages 54-61  
  Keywords Animals; Brain/*physiology; Cognition/*physiology; Discrimination (Psychology)/physiology; Emotions/physiology; Humans; Imitative Behavior; Learning/*physiology; Mental Processes/*physiology; Motor Activity/physiology; Neurons/physiology; Recognition (Psychology); Sensation/physiology  
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  Address Neurosciences Department, University of Parma, Italy  
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  ISSN (up) 0036-8733 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:17076084 Approved no  
  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2829  
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Author Van Schaik, C. openurl 
  Title Why are some animals so smart? Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Scientific American Abbreviated Journal Sci Am  
  Volume 294 Issue 4 Pages 64-71  
  Keywords Animals; *Behavior, Animal; Cognition; Conditioning (Psychology); Culture; Environment; Equipment and Supplies; Evolution; Indonesia; *Intelligence; Learning; Pongo pygmaeus/*physiology; Social Behavior  
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  Address Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland  
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  ISSN (up) 0036-8733 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:16596881 Approved no  
  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2830  
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Author Friedberger, J.C. openurl 
  Title Modern horse training methods--what is justifiable? Type Journal Article
  Year 1970 Publication The Veterinary Record Abbreviated Journal Vet. Rec.  
  Volume 87 Issue 8 Pages 229-231  
  Keywords Animals; *Behavior, Animal; Ethics; *Horses; Learning  
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  ISSN (up) 0042-4900 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:5529870 Approved no  
  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 1967  
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Author Reznikova, Z.I. openurl 
  Title [The study of tool use as the way for general estimation of cognitive abilities in animals] Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii Abbreviated Journal Zh Obshch Biol  
  Volume 67 Issue 1 Pages 3-22  
  Keywords Adaptation, Psychological; Animals; *Cognition; Learning; Pattern Recognition, Physiological; Species Specificity  
  Abstract Investigation of tool use is an effective way to determine cognitive abilities of animals. This approach raises hypotheses, which delineate limits of animal's competence in understanding of objects properties and interrelations and the influence of individual and social experience on their behaviour. On the basis of brief review of different models of manipulation with objects and tools manufacturing (detaching, subtracting and reshaping) by various animals (from elephants to ants) in natural conditions the experimental data concerning tool usage was considered. Tool behaviour of anumals could be observed rarely and its distribution among different taxons is rather odd. Recent studies have revealed that some species (for instance, bonobos and tamarins) which didn't manipulate tools in wild life appears to be an advanced tool users and even manufacturers in laboratory. Experimental studies of animals tool use include investigation of their ability to use objects physical properties, to categorize objects involved in tool activity by its functional properties, to take forces affecting objects into account, as well as their capacity of planning their actions. The crucial question is whether animals can abstract general principles of relations between objects regardless of the exact circumstances, or they develop specific associations between concerete things and situations. Effectiveness of laboratory methods is estimated in the review basing on comparative studies of tool behaviour, such as “support problem”, “stick problem”, “tube- and tube-trap problem”, and “reserve tube problem”. Levels of social learning, the role of imprinting, and species-specific predisposition to formation of specific domains are discussed. Experimental investigation of tool use allows estimation of the individuals' intelligence in populations. A hypothesis suggesting that strong predisposition to formation of specific associations can serve as a driving force and at the same time as obstacle to animals' activity is discussed. In several “technically gifted” species (such as woodpecker finches, New Caledonian crows, and chimpanzees) tool use seems to be guided by a rapid process of trial and error learning. Individuals that are predisposed to learn specific connections do this too quickly and thus become enslaved by stereotypic solutions of raising problems.  
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  Language Russian Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN (up) 0044-4596 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:16521567 Approved no  
  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2857  
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Author Krzeminska, W. openurl 
  Title [The child learns about the world] Type Journal Article
  Year 1979 Publication Pielegniarka i polozna Abbreviated Journal Pieleg Polozna  
  Volume Issue 7 Pages 24-25  
  Keywords Child; *Child Development; Child, Preschool; Humans; *Learning  
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  Language Polish Summary Language Original Title Dziecko poznaje swiat  
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  ISSN (up) 0048-4148 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:260249 Approved no  
  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 43  
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Author Shettleworth, S.J. openurl 
  Title Foraging, memory, and constraints on learning Type Journal Article
  Year 1985 Publication Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Abbreviated Journal Ann N Y Acad Sci  
  Volume 443 Issue Pages 216-226  
  Keywords Animals; Animals, Wild; *Appetitive Behavior; *Avoidance Learning; Birds; *Conditioning, Classical; Discrimination Learning; Food Preferences; *Memory; *Mental Recall; Motivation; *Predatory Behavior; Rats; *Taste  
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  ISSN (up) 0077-8923 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes PMID:3860072 Approved no  
  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 384  
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Author de Wall, F.B.; Aureli, F. openurl 
  Title Conflict resolution and distress alleviation in monkeys and apes Type Journal Article
  Year 1997 Publication Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Abbreviated Journal Ann N Y Acad Sci  
  Volume 807 Issue Pages 317-328  
  Keywords *Adaptation, Psychological; Animals; Arousal; *Conflict (Psychology); Empathy; Haplorhini/*psychology; Hominidae/*psychology; Humans; Learning; Models, Psychological; *Social Behavior; Stress, Psychological  
  Abstract Research on nonhuman primates has produced compelling evidence for reconciliation and consolation, that is, postconflict contacts that serve to respectively repair social relationships and reassure distressed individuals, such as victims of attack. This has led to a view of conflict and conflict resolution as an integrated part of social relationships, hence determined by social factors and modifiable by the social environment. Implications of this new model of social conflict are discussed along with evidence for behavioral flexibility, the value of cooperation, and the possibility that distress alleviation rests on empathy, a capacity that may be present in chimpanzees and humans but not in most other animals.  
  Address Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. dewaal@rmy.emory.edu  
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  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 2882  
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Author Fox, N.A. doi  openurl
  Title Temperament and early experience form social behavior Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Abbreviated Journal Ann N Y Acad Sci  
  Volume 1038 Issue Pages 171-178  
  Keywords Adult; Animals; Child; Child Behavior Disorders/physiopathology; Fear/physiology; Humans; Individuality; Infant; Learning/*physiology; *Personality Development; *Social Behavior; Temperament/*physiology  
  Abstract Individual differences in the way persons respond to stimulation can have important consequences for their ability to learn and their choice of vocation. Temperament is the study of such individual differences, being thought of as the behavioral style of an individual. Common to all approaches in the study of temperament are the notions that it can be identified in infancy, is fairly stable across development, and influences adult personality. We have identified a specific temperament type in infancy that involves heightened distress to novel and unfamiliar stimuli. Infants who exhibit this temperament are likely, as they get older, to display behavioral inhibition-wariness and heightened vigilance of the unfamiliar-particularly in social situations. Our work has also described the underlying biology of this temperament and has linked it to neural systems supporting fear responses in animals. Children displaying behavioral inhibition are at-risk for behavioral problems related to anxiety and social withdrawal.  
  Address Institute for Child Study, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742-1131, USA. nf4@umail.umd.edu  
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  Notes PMID:15838111 Approved no  
  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4131  
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