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Author | Allen, C. | ||||
Title | Transitive inference in animals: Reasoning or conditioned associations? | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Rational Animals? | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 175-186 | ||
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Abstract | It is widely accepted that many species of nonhuman animals appear to engage in transitive inference, producing appropriate responses to novel pairings of non-adjacent members of an ordered series without previous experience of these pairings. Some researchers have taken this capability as providing direct evidence that these animals reason. Others resist such declarations, favouring instead explanations in terms of associative conditioning. Associative accounts of transitive inference have been refined in application to a simple 5-element learning task that is the main paradigm for laboratory investigations of the phenomenon, but it remains unclear how well those accounts generalise to more information-rich environments such as social hierarchies which may contain scores of individuals, and where rapid learning is important. The case of transitive inference is an example of a more general dispute between proponents of associative accounts and advocates of more cognitive accounts of animal behaviour. Examination of the specific details of transitive inference suggests some lessons for the wider debate. |
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Address | Texas A&M University | ||||
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Publisher | Oxford University Press | Place of Publication | Oxford | Editor | Hurley, S.; Nudds, M. |
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ISSN | ISBN | 978-0-19-852827-2 | Medium | ||
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 611 | ||
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Author | Pinkus, S.; Smith, J.; Jolly, A. | ||||
Title | Feeding Competition Between Introduced Eulemur fulvus and Native Lemur catta During the Birth Season at Berenty Reserve, Southern Madagascar | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Ringtailed Lemur Biology | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 119-140 | ||
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 810 | ||
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Author | Tomasello, M.; Call, J. | ||||
Title | Do chimpanzees know what others see ? or only what they are looking at? | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Rational Animals? | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 371-384 | ||
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Publisher | Oxford University Press | Place of Publication | Oxford | Editor | Nudds, M.; Hurley, S. |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4094 | ||
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Author | Trillmich, F.; Rehling, A. | ||||
Title | Animal Communication: Parent-Offspring | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 284-288 | ||
Keywords | Begging Strategies; Communication; Competition; Feeding Strategies; Fitness; Parental Care; Parent-Offspring Conflict; Recognition; Sibling Conflict | ||||
Abstract | Parent-offspring communication has evolved under strong selection to guarantee that the valuable resource of parental care is expended efficiently on raising offspring. To ensure allocation of parental care to their own offspring, individual recognition becomes established in higher vertebrates when the young become mobile at a time when a nest site can no longer provide a safe cue to recognition. Such recognition needs to be established by rapid, sometimes imprinting-like, processes in animals producing precocial offspring. In parents, offering strategies that stimulate feeding and entice offspring to approach the right site have evolved. Such parental signals can be olfactory, acoustic, or visual. In offspring, begging strategies involve shuffling for the best place to obtain food – be this the most productive teat or the best position in the nest. This involves signals that make the offspring particularly obvious to the parent. Parents often feed young according to their signaling intensity but may also show favoritism for weaker offspring. Offspring signals also serve to communicate the continuing presence of the young and may thereby maintain brood-care behavior in parents. Internal processes in parents may end parental care irrespective of further signaling by offspring, thus ensuring that offspring cannot manipulate parents into providing substantially more care than is optimal for their own fitness. | ||||
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Publisher | Elsevier | Place of Publication | Oxford | Editor | Keith Brown |
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ISSN | ISBN | 9780080448541 | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4642 | ||
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Author | Brooks, S. M. | ||||
Title | Animal-assisted psychotherapy and equine-fasciliated psychotherapy. | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Psychotherapy and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 196-217 | ||
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Publisher | Guilford Press | Place of Publication | New York | Editor | Webb, N.B. |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5071 | ||
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Author | Nudds, M.; Hurley, S. | ||||
Title | Rational Animals? | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Oxford University Press | Abbreviated Journal | Oxf. Univ. Pr. |
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Abstract | To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today – how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. It does this with attention to three key questions, which recur throughout the book and which have both empirical and philosophical aspects: What kinds of behavioural tasks can animals successfully perform? What if any mental processes must be postulated to explain their performance at these tasks? What properties must processes have to count as rational? The book is distinctive in pursuing these questions not only in relation to our closest relatives, the primates, whose intelligence usually gets the most attention, but also in relation to birds and dolphins, where striking results are also being obtained. Some chapters focus on a particular species. They describe some of the extraordinary and complex behaviour of these species – using tools in novel ways to solve foraging problems, for example, or behaving in novel ways to solve complex social problems – and ask whether such behaviour should be explained in rational or merely mechanistic terms. Other chapters address more theoretical issues and ask, for example, what it means for behaviour to be rational, and whether rationality can be understood in the absence of language. The book includes many of the world's leading figures doing empirical work on rationality in primates, dolphins, and birds, as well as distinguished philosophers of mind and science. The book includes an editors' introduction which summarises the philosophical and empirical work presented, and draws together the issues discussed by the contributors. | ||||
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ISSN | ISBN | 0198528272 | Medium | ||
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 608 | ||
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Author | Nicholson, Nancy | ||||
Title | BioMechanical Riding & Dressage – A Rider's Atlas | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Zip Publishing, Columbus, Ohio/USA | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 180 | ||
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Abstract | Biomechanical riding is about a strategy for riding horses. It is about approaching riding with a plan for cooperative interaction between you and your horse. The strategy integrates principles or concepts with their execution or technique of riding. This Atlas is explanatory concerning relations between rider and horse. It is a connecting book about the intersection of principle and technique in several literatures and is not a replacement for your other books. | ||||
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Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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ISSN | ISBN | 0-9778102-1-6 | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Reiten Lesen Denken @ eberhardhuebener @ | Serial | 872 | ||
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Author | Karl von, Philippe | ||||
Title | Irrwege der modernen Dressur. Die Suche nach der “klassischen” Alternative | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
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Abstract | Philippe Karl, einer der mutigsten Kritiker einer Dressurwelt, deren Ausbildungsmethoden einzige darauf abzielen, ein Pferd möglichst schnell in mit hohen Preisgeldern dotierten Prüfungen an den Start zu bringen, legt mit diesem Buch den Finger in die Wunde. Auf der Grundlage der psychischen, anatomischen und physiologischen Voraussetzungen des Pferdes analysiert der Autor die Grundsätze der modernen Dressur, wie sie in den Richtlinien der Deutschen Reiterlichen Vereinigung festgeschrieben sind. |
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Publisher | 978-3861274131 | Place of Publication | Brunsbek | Editor | |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4401 | ||
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Author | Paukner, A.; Anderson, J.R.; Fujita, K. | ||||
Title | Redundant food searches by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): a failure of metacognition? | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Animal cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
Volume | 9 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 110-117 |
Keywords | Animals; *Appetitive Behavior; Cebus; *Concept Formation; Female; Male; Pattern Recognition, Visual; *Problem Solving; *Visual Perception | ||||
Abstract | This study investigated capuchin monkeys' understanding of their own visual search behavior as a means to gather information. Five monkeys were presented with three tubes that could be visually searched to determine the location of a bait. The bait's visibility was experimentally manipulated, and the monkeys' spontaneous visual searches before tube selection were analyzed. In Experiment 1, three monkeys selected the baited tube significantly above chance; however, the monkeys also searched transparent tubes. In Experiment 2, a bent tube in which food was never visible was introduced. When the bent tube was baited, the monkeys failed to deduce the bait location and responded randomly. They also continued to look into the bent tube despite not gaining any pertinent information from it. The capuchin monkeys' behavior contrasts with the efficient employment of visual search behavior reported in humans, apes and macaques. This difference is consistent with species-related variations in metacognitive abilities, although other explanations are also possible. | ||||
Address | Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK. ap14@stir.ac.uk | ||||
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ISSN | 1435-9448 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Admin @ knut @ | Serial | 15 | ||
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Author | Palmer, M.E.; Calve, M.R.; Adamo, S.A. | ||||
Title | Response of female cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda) to mirrors and conspecifics: evidence for signaling in female cuttlefish | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Animal cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
Volume | 9 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 151-155 |
Keywords | Analysis of Variance; *Animal Communication; Animals; Bias (Epidemiology); Female; Male; Pigmentation/*physiology; Recognition (Psychology)/*physiology; Sepia/*physiology; Visual Perception/*physiology | ||||
Abstract | Cuttlefish have a large repertoire of body patterns that are used for camouflage and interspecific signaling. Intraspecific signaling by male cuttlefish has been well documented but studies on signaling by females are lacking. We found that females displayed a newly described body pattern termed Splotch toward their mirror image and female conspecifics, but not to males, prey or inanimate objects. Female cuttlefish may use the Splotch body pattern as an intraspecific signal, possibly to reduce agonistic interactions. The ability of females to produce a consistent body pattern in response to conspecifics and mirrors suggests that they can recognize same-sex conspecifics using visual cues, despite the lack of sexual dimorphism visible to human observers. | ||||
Address | Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Dorset, ON, Canada, P0A 1E0 | ||||
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Notes | PMID:16408230 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ knut @ | Serial | 16 | ||
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