Learning & BehaviorPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-05-25DOI: 10.3758/s13420-023-00586-0
Eva Kakrada, Michael Colombo
{"title":"Beyond the mark: Signatures of self-recognition in fish.","authors":"Eva Kakrada, Michael Colombo","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00586-0","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-023-00586-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new study with cleaner fish demonstrates the need to expand cognitive testing of animals beyond success testing (a simple pass or fail criteria), and instead investigate the signatures of how animals solve tasks. By tailoring traditional cognitive tests to the focal species' natural behaviour, researchers can provide animals with a better chance for demonstrating their cognitive abilities, offering a more comprehensive understanding of the evolution of cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9522839","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}
{"title":"Sexy tools: Individual differences in drumming tool shape","authors":"","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00620-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00620-1","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Summary</h3> <p>Heinsohn et al. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290</em>, 2023.1271, (<span>2023</span>) report that the choice of tool type (drumsticks or seed pods) and the shape of drumsticks manufactured by palm cockatoos differ among individuals. This variation does not seem to be culturally transmitted as no spatial correlation between proximity of display trees and tool shape was found.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":"34 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138715039","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}
Miina Lõoke, Lieta Marinelli, Cécile Guérineau, Christian Agrillo, Paolo Mongillo
{"title":"Yes, dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion: A reply to Pepperberg","authors":"Miina Lõoke, Lieta Marinelli, Cécile Guérineau, Christian Agrillo, Paolo Mongillo","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00619-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00619-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A recent paper by Pepperberg, <i>Learning & Behavior</i>, <i>51</i>, 5–6, (2023) enquires about the validity of the finding that dogs are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion, reported by Lõoke and coauthors (Lõoke et al., <i>Animal Cognition</i>, <i>25</i>, 43–51, 2022). Here we elaborate on the matter, providing both theoretical considerations and further data, supporting the soundness of our previous conclusions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138631398","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}
Learning & BehaviorPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-01-17DOI: 10.3758/s13420-022-00569-7
Zoran Tiganj
{"title":"Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory.","authors":"Zoran Tiganj","doi":"10.3758/s13420-022-00569-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-022-00569-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A recent study by Shushruth et al. (2022, Current Biology 32[9], 1949-1960) demonstrated that monkeys postpone evidence accumulation until the relevant motor actions are revealed and then sequentially sample the evidence from memory. Here, we reflect on the insights this work provides into reinforcement learning in evidence accumulation tasks and neural mechanisms for the temporal organization of memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"351-352"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10595674","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}
Learning & BehaviorPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2022-12-29DOI: 10.3758/s13420-022-00568-8
Cemre Baykan, Zhuanghua Shi
{"title":"Temporal decision making: it is all about context.","authors":"Cemre Baykan, Zhuanghua Shi","doi":"10.3758/s13420-022-00568-8","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-022-00568-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Is there sufficient evidence to make a decision, or has enough time passed to justify making a decision? According to Ofir and Landau (2022, Current Biology: CB, 32[18], 4093-4100.e6), these two questions are closely related: brain activity measured by EEG at the offset of stimulus presentation predicts the behavioral temporal decision, being influenced by the current context, and reflecting the relative distance to a decision threshold which is also context dependent.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"349-350"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10716059/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10454132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Learning & BehaviorPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-01-03DOI: 10.3758/s13420-022-00564-y
Arnaud Rey, Joël Fagot
{"title":"Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows.","authors":"Arnaud Rey, Joël Fagot","doi":"10.3758/s13420-022-00564-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-022-00564-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recursive sequence generation (i.e., the ability to transfer recursive patterns to novel items) was recently reported in crows (Liao et al., 2022, Science Advances, 8[44], eabq3356). Here, we argue that although the reported data are certainly compatible with the recursion hypothesis, they can also be explained by other, much simpler mechanisms of associative learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"347-348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10459925","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}
{"title":"Context-induced renewal of passive but not active coping behaviours in the shock-probe defensive burying task.","authors":"Alexa Brown, Melissa Martins, Isabelle Richard, Nadia Chaudhri","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00583-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-023-00583-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Renewal is the return of extinguished responding after removal from the extinction context. Renewal has been extensively studied using classical aversive conditioning procedures that measure a passive freezing response to an aversive conditioned stimulus. However, coping responses to aversive stimuli are complex and can be reflected in passive and active behaviours. Using the shock-probe defensive burying task, we investigated whether different coping responses are susceptible to renewal. During conditioning, male, Long-Evans rats were placed into a specific context (Context A) where an electrified shock-probe delivered a 3 mA shock upon contact. During extinction, the shock-probe was unarmed in either the same (Context A) or a different context (Context B). Renewal of conditioned responses was assessed in the conditioning context (ABA) or in a novel context (ABC or AAB). Renewal of passive coping responses, indicated by an increased latency and a decreased duration of shock-probe contacts, was observed in all groups. However, renewal of passive coping, measured by increased time spent on the side of the chamber opposite the shock-probe, was only found in the ABA group. Renewal of active coping responses linked to defensive burying was not observed in any group. The present findings highlight the presence of multiple psychological processes underlying even basic forms of aversive conditioning and demonstrate the importance of assessing a broader set of behaviours to tease apart these different underlying mechanisms. The current findings suggest that passive coping responses may be more reliable indicators for assessing renewal than active coping behaviours associated with defensive burying.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"468-481"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9759156","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}
Learning & BehaviorPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-24DOI: 10.3758/s13420-023-00595-z
Vito A G Lionetti, Sudhakar Deeti, Trevor Murray, Ken Cheng
{"title":"Resolving conflict between aversive and appetitive learning of views: how ants shift to a new route during navigation.","authors":"Vito A G Lionetti, Sudhakar Deeti, Trevor Murray, Ken Cheng","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00595-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-023-00595-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ants store and recall views associated with foraging success, facilitating future foraging journeys. Negative views are also learned, but instead prompt avoidance behaviors such as turning away. However, little is known about the aversive view's role in navigation, the effect of cue conflict, or the contextual relationship between learning and recalling. In this study, we tested Myrmecia midas' capacity for aversive learning of views either independently of or in conflict with appetitive events. We either captured and released foragers when reaching a location or let them pass unhindered. After a few journeys, captured foragers exhibited aversive learning by circumventing the capture location and increasing both meandering and scanning. Ants that experienced foraging-appetitive and homing-aversive events on their journeys exhibited lower rates of avoidance behavior and scans than those experiencing aversive events in both outbound and homebound journeys. The foraging-aversive and homing-aversive ants exhibited similar levels of avoidance and scanning as those that experienced the foraging-aversive and homing-appetitive. We found that foragers showed evidence of context specificity in their scanning behavior, but not in other measures of aversive learning. The foragers did not increase their meandering and scans while approaching the views associated with aversive events. In addition to shedding light on the role of aversive views in navigation, our finding has important implications for understanding the learning mechanisms triggered by handling animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"446-457"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10716056/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10067690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees.","authors":"Masaki Tomonaga, Yoshiki Kurosawa, Yuri Kawaguchi, Hiroya Takiyama","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00581-5","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-023-00581-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During computer-controlled cognitive tasks, chimpanzees often look up at the food dispenser, which activates at the same time as feedback for the correct choice but not for feedback for the incorrect choice. Do these \"looking back\" behaviors also indicate signs of spontaneous monitoring of their confidence in their choices? To address this question, we delayed the feedback for 1 s after their choice responses and observed their look-back behaviors during the delay period. Two chimpanzees looked up at the food dispenser significantly less frequently when their choice was incorrect (but the feedback was not given) than when it was correct. These look-back behaviors have not been explicitly trained under experimental contexts. Therefore, these results indicate that chimpanzees spontaneously change the frequency of their look-back behaviors in response to the correctness or incorrectness of their own choices, even without external feedback, suggesting that their look-back behaviors may reflect the level of \"confidence\" or \"uncertainty\" of their responses immediately before.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"402-412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9176256","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}
Learning & BehaviorPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-07-05DOI: 10.3758/s13420-023-00589-x
C Cavalli, M V Dzik, G Barrera, M Bentosela
{"title":"Still-face effect in domestic dogs: comparing untrained with trained and animal assisted interventions dogs.","authors":"C Cavalli, M V Dzik, G Barrera, M Bentosela","doi":"10.3758/s13420-023-00589-x","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13420-023-00589-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The still-face effect has been extensively studied in human infants and comprises the reduction in affiliative behaviors and increased stress that occurs after a sudden interruption of social interaction with a caregiver. Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) are model candidates for showing this effect, as they form deep bonds with their owners and interspecific social interaction is reinforcing to them. The aim of these studies was to assess if companion dogs exhibit the still-face effect and whether prior experiences during ontogeny modulate this effect. To this end, Study 1 compared dogs with different levels of training (untrained, intermediate, and advanced), while Study 2 assessed dogs that participated in Animal Assisted Interventions (AAIs) and companion dogs (CDs). The procedure was carried out virtually and comprised three phases lasting 1 min: interaction, still-face (the owner turned suddenly indifferent), and reunion (the interaction was resumed). Dogs exhibited a decrease in proximity to and contact with the owner, as well as an increase in begging and stress behaviors during the still-face phase. Moreover, this was not observed in a control condition in which the interaction continued in the same way during all three phases, discarding alternative explanations for these changes. These results show that dogs experience a still-face effect in a similar way to infants, highlighting the value interspecific social interaction has for dogs. Nevertheless, the absence of differences according to their training level or participation in AAIs suggests this is a robust phenomenon, which appears to be less susceptible to the influences of ontogenetic experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"428-445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9756464","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}