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Author Zentall, T.R.; Sutton, J.E.; Sherburne, L.M.
Title True imitative learning in pigeons Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Psychol Sci Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Zentall1996 Serial 6372
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Author Worden, R.P.
Title Primate social intelligence Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Cognitive Science Abbreviated Journal Cognit. Sci.
Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 579-616
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Abstract A computational theory of primate social intelligence is proposed in which primates represent social situations internally by discrete symbol structures, called scripts. Three well-defined computational operations on scripts are sufficient to support social learning, planning, and prediction. This gives a formal, predictive model with which to analyse how primate social knowledge is acquired, as well as how it is used. The theory is compared with primate data, such as Cheney and Seyfarth's observations of vervet monkeys. It gives simple, understandable script-based analyses of many observed phenomena--such as the recognition and use of kin relations, learning of alarm calls, habituation to calls, knowledge of rank, tactical deception, and attachment behaviour. I argue that a tight, concise theory of social cognition, such as script theory, is needed to explain the rapid learning and social guile seen in primates. It also has the benefits of simplicity and testability. The extension of scripts to incorporate a primate theory of mind is described in a subsequent paper.
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Author Wilson, D.S.; Dugatkin, L.A.
Title A reply to Lombardi & Hurlbert Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 52 Issue 2 Pages 423-425
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Author Dugatkin, L.A.
Title Tit for Tat, by-product mutualism and predator inspection: a reply to Connor Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 51 Issue 2 Pages 455-457
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Author Doré,F.Y.; Fiset,S.; Goulet,S.; Dumans,M.-C.; Gagnon,S.
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 Galef, B.G.
Title The adaptive value of social learning: a reply to Laland Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 52 Issue 3 Pages 641-644
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Author Treichler, F.R.; Van Tilburg, D.
Title Concurrent Conditional Discrimination Tests of Transitive Inference by Macaque Monkeys: List Linking Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Abbreviated Journal J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process
Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 105-117
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Abstract Processing of serial information was assessed by training six macaques on a five-item list of objects arranged into the four conditional pairs, A-B+, B-C+, C-D+, and D-E+. An analogous list (F through J) was similarly trained. Subsequently, both lists were linked by training on E-F+, a pair that provided adjacent elements from each list. Then, all unique and trained object pairs from both lists were presented as a test. Results indicated that the objects were retained as a single, linearly organized list with choice accuracy directly related to interitem distance between paired objects. A second experiment explored the consequences of incidence of conflicting information on list organization. In both experiments, selections depended on representational processes and supported the view that monkeys and pigeons retain serial lists in qualitatively different ways.
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Author Reed, P.; Skiera, F.; Adams, L.; Heyes, C.M.
Title Effects of Isolation Rearing and Mirror Exposure on Social and Asocial Discrimination Performance Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Learning and Motivation Abbreviated Journal Learn. Motiv.
Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 113-129
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Abstract Four experiments examined the effects of rearing in isolation on rats performance on discrimination-based and social learning tasks. After demonstrating that the rearing procedures produced similar results in an open field task to those previously established (Experiment 1), rats were subjected to two discrimination tasks: an instrumental occasion setting procedure (Experiment 3) and a nonspatial win-stay/lose-shift versus win-shift/lose-stay procedure (Experiment 4). Deficits in acquisition of the necessary discriminations were noted in the rats raised in isolation, but there were no differences between isolation-reared and socially reared subjects in response acquisition per se. In Experiment 2, rats were presented with an observational learning task using the bidirectional control procedure. Socially reared rats had a tendency to imitate the behavior they had observed, but rats raised in isolation performed the opposite behavior to that observed, indicating a failure to use a conspecific as a reference point in the task. The presence of a mirror during rearing in isolation was also investigated, but was found to have little effect in attenuating the above deficits in behavior.
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Author Brunner, D.; Kacelnik, A.; Gibbon, J.
Title Memory for inter-reinforcement interval variability and patch departure decisions in the starling,Sturnus vulgaris Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 51 Issue 5 Pages 1025-1045
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Abstract An experiment with starlings was conducted to investigate the effect of variability in inter-reinforcement intervals on foraging decisions. The experimental design simulated an environment in which food was distributed in patches. Patches contained zero to four food items which could be collected by pecking at a key. All patches ended with sudden depletion. The time elapsed since the last reinforcement was the only way to detect the depletion of the patch. Once a patch was depleted, a new patch could be reached by completion of a travel requirement of 20 flights between two perches. Key pecks within a patch and the time of the last response in a patch (giving-in time) were recorded. The level of variability in the inter-reinforcement intervals was varied between different conditions. An increase in inter-reinforcement interval variability resulted in a flattening of response rate functions and giving-in time distributions, and in more asymmetry of the response functions, but not of the giving-in time distributions. Two theoretical models of decision making are presented, which differ in the assumptions about memory constraints. In one case, all inter-reinforcement intervals are remembered but in the other, only the intervals with extreme values are remembered. Both models accommodate response rates as a function of trial time, but only the second is compatible with the observed departure decision. Our results are compatible with net rate maximization.
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Author Kroodsma, D. E.; Miller, E. H. (eds)
Title Ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in birds Type Book Whole
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2166
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