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Are crows smart? Let them count the ways. 乌鸦聪明吗？让它们数数吧。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00656-x

Melissa Johnston, Damian Scarf

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Route learning and transport of resources during colony relocation in Australian desert ants. 澳大利亚沙漠蚂蚁在蚁群迁移过程中的路线学习和资源运输。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00652-1

Sudhakar Deeti, Donald James McLean, Trevor Murray, Ken Cheng

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Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation. 大象真的不会忘记吗？我们对大象记忆的了解以及进一步调查的呼吁。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00655-y

Sydney F Hope, Kaitlyn R Willgohs, Sangpa Dittakul, Joshua M Plotnik

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To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals. 知道还是不知道？动物的好奇心和前瞻性信息的价值。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00647-y

Victor Ajuwon, Tiago Monteiro, Alexandra K Schnell, Nicola S Clayton

{"title":"To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals.","authors":"Victor Ajuwon, Tiago Monteiro, Alexandra K Schnell, Nicola S Clayton","doi":"10.3758/s13420-024-00647-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00647-y","url":null,"abstract":"Humans and other animals often seek instrumental information to strategically improve their decisions in the present. Our curiosity also leads us to acquire non-instrumental information that is not immediately useful but can be encoded in memory and stored for use in the future by means of episodic recall. Despite its adaptive benefits and central role in human cognition, questions remain about the cognitive mechanisms and evolutionary origins that underpin curiosity. Here, we comparatively review recent empirical studies that some authors have suggested reflects curiosity in nonhuman animals. We focus on findings from laboratory tasks in which individuals can choose to gain advanced information about uncertain future outcomes, even though the information cannot be used to increase future rewards and is often costly. We explore the prevalence of preferences in these tasks across animals, discuss the theoretical advances that they have promoted, and outline some limitations in contemporary research. We also discuss several features of human curiosity that can guide future empirical research aimed at characterising and understanding curiosity in animals. Though the prevalence of curiosity in animals is actively debated, we surmise that investigating behavioural candidates for curiosity-motivated behaviour in a broader range of species and contexts, should help promote theoretical advances in our understanding of cognitive principles and evolutionary pressures that support curiosity-driven behaviour.","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Noisy nests: Early-life noise exposure impacts songbird fitness. 嘈杂的巢穴：生命早期的噪音暴露会影响鸣禽的适应能力

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00654-z

Christopher N Templeton

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Remembering as an operant: Effects of instructional control and reinforcement on remembering behavior. 记忆是一种操作行为：指令控制和强化对记忆行为的影响

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00653-0

Víctor de Olives, Eduardo Polín, Vicente Pérez

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Just keep exploring: Genetics of fish niche adaptation. 不断探索鱼类生态位适应的遗传学

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00649-w

Kathleen M Munley

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Watched or not: Overimitation in dogs under different attentional states. 观察与否：狗在不同注意状态下的过度模仿。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00635-2

Louise Mackie, Jeanne Trehorel, Ludwig Huber

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Correction: Measuring spontaneous episodic future thinking in children: Challenges and opportunities. 更正：测量儿童的自发偶发未来思维：挑战与机遇。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00650-3

Que Anh Pham, Gladys Ayson, Cristina M Atance, Tashauna L Blankenship

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The order of stimuli matters when learning second-order transitional probabilities. 学习二阶过渡概率时，刺激物的顺序很重要。

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Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00646-z

Laura Lazartigues, Fabien Mathy, Carlos Aguilar, Frédéric Lavigne

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