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Author (up) Akins, C.K.; Klein, E.D.; Zentall, T.R. openurl 
  Title Imitative learning in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) using the bidirectional control procedure Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Animal learning & behavior Abbreviated Journal Anim Learn Behav  
  Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 275-281  
  Keywords Animals; Attention; Behavior, Animal; Coturnix; *Discrimination Learning; *Imitative Behavior; Male; Smell  
  Abstract In the bidirectional control procedure, observers are exposed to a conspecific demonstrator responding to a manipulandum in one of two directions (e.g., left vs. right). This procedure controls for socially mediated effects (the mere presence of a conspecific) and stimulus enhancement (attention drawn to a manipulandum by its movement), and it has the added advantage of being symmetrical (the two different responses are similar in topography). Imitative learning is demonstrated when the observers make the response in the direction that they observed it being made. Recently, however, it has been suggested that when such evidence is found with a predominantly olfactory animal, such as the rat, it may result artifactually from odor cues left on one side of the manipulandum by the demonstrator. In the present experiment, we found that Japanese quail, for which odor cues are not likely to play a role, also showed significant correspondence between the direction in which the demonstrator and the observer push a screen to gain access to reward. Furthermore, control quail that observed the screen move, when the movement of the screen was not produced by the demonstrator, did not show similar correspondence between the direction of screen movement observed and that performed by the observer. Thus, with the appropriate control, the bidirectional procedure appears to be useful for studying imitation in avian species.  
  Address University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0044, USA  
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Author (up) Doré,F.Y.; Fiset,S.; Goulet,S.; Dumans,M.-C.; Gagnon,S. openurl 
  Title Search behavior in cats and dogs Interspecific differences in working memory and spatial cognition Type Journal Article
  Year 1996 Publication Animal Learning & Behavior Abbreviated Journal Anim Learn. & Behav.  
  Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 142-149  
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  Abstract Cats and dogs search behavior was compared in different problems where an object was visibly

moved behind a screen that was then visibly moved to a new position. In Experiments 1 (cats) and 2 (dogs),

one group was tested with identical screens and the other group was tested with dissimilar screens.

Results showed that in both species, search behavior was based on processing of spatial information

rather than on recognition of the visual features of the target screen. Cats and dogs were unable to find

the object by inferring its invisible movement. They reached a high level of success only if there was

direct perceptual evidence that the object could not be at its initial position. When the position change

was indicated by an indirect cue, cats searched more at the object`s initial than final position, whereas

dogs searched equally at both positions. Interspecific similarities and differences are interpreted in

terms of the requirements for resetting working memory.
 
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Author (up) Kurtzman H.S.; Church R.M.; Crystal J.D. url  openurl
  Title Data archiving for animal cognition research: Report of an NIMH workshop Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Animal Learning & Behavior Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 30 Issue Pages 405-412  
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Author (up) SYLVAIN GAGNON,FRANCOISY. DORE openurl 
  Title Search behavior of dogs (Canis familiaris) in invisible displacement problems Type Journal Article
  Year 1993 Publication Animal Learning & Behavior Abbreviated Journal Anim Learn. & Behav.  
  Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 246-254  
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  Abstract Gagnon and Dor (1992) showed that domestic dogs are able to solve a Piagetian object permanence

task called the invisible displacement problem. A toy is hidden in a container which is

moved behind a screen where the toy is removed and left. Dogs make more errors in these problems

than they do in visible displacement tests, in which the object is hidden directly behind

the target screen. In Experiment 1, we examinedcomponents ofthe standard procedure of invisible

displacements that may make encoding or retention of the hiding location more difficult than

it is in visible displacements. In Experiment 2, we compared dogs performances in visible and

invisible displacement problems when delays of 0, 10, and 20 sec were introduced between the

objects final disappearance and the subjects release. The results revealed that dogs poorer performance

in invisible displacement tests is related to the complex sequence of events that have

to be encoded or remembered as well as to a difficulty in representing the position change that

is signaled, but not directly perceived.
 
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