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Associative learning helps ants to hold grudges. 联想学习有助于蚂蚁保持怨恨。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000404

Ken Cheng

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A deep neural network tracks tool proficiency development. 深度神经网络跟踪工具熟练度的发展。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000419

Melissa Johnston, Donna Kean, Alex H Taylor

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"Captured" by centaur: Opaque predictions or process insights? 被centaur“捕获”：不透明的预测还是过程洞察？

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000410

Phillip H Kieval, Cameron Buckner

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Navigation and spatial learning in Hermann's tortoises: Insights from geometric reorientation. 赫尔曼乌龟的导航和空间学习：来自几何重新定位的见解。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000423

Greta Baratti, Maria Luongo, Michela Ponticorvo, Tommaso Pecchia, Gionata Stancher, Onofrio Gigliotta, Valeria Anna Sovrano

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Erratum to "The spatiotemporal dynamics of conditioned behavior: First-order and higher-order conditioning" by Navarro et al. (2025). 纳瓦罗等人（2025）的《条件行为的时空动态：一阶和高阶条件作用》的勘误。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000411

{"title":"Erratum to \"The spatiotemporal dynamics of conditioned behavior: First-order and higher-order conditioning\" by Navarro et al. (2025).","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/xan0000411","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000411","url":null,"abstract":"Reports an error in \"The spatiotemporal dynamics of conditioned behavior: First-order and higher-order conditioning\" by Victor M. Navarro, Dominic M. Dwyer and Robert C. Honey (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 2025[Apr], Vol 51[2], 92-102; see record 2026-02046-003). The article had the incorrect open access license listed in the author note due to a processing error. The correct open access license for the article is CC BY 4.0; https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2026-02046-003). Pavlovian conditioning procedures generate spatially and temporally distinct behaviors. For example, after rats have received pairings of a lever with food, they approach the food well during the lever (called goal-tracking) and interact with it (called sign-tracking), with these two spatially distinct behaviors being distributed differently across the temporal duration of the lever. Experiment 1 assessed the development of these spatiotemporally defined behaviors during first-order conditioning, as a function of the sequence in which the lever and food occurred (lever→food or food→lever) and the interval between them (1 s or 11 s). In Experiment 2, the same rats received higher-order conditioning trials in which an auditory stimulus was paired with the lever and the emergence of goal-tracking to the auditory stimulus was assessed. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 revealed dissociations between where and when learning was evident during first- and higher-order conditioning, underscoring the need for models of Pavlovian conditioning to explain both the nature and timing of different conditioned responses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13660859/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145566443","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}

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Mechanisms underlying the accuracy of stimulus representations: Within-event learning and outcome mediation. 刺激表征准确性的机制：事件内学习与结果中介。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000399

Sandra Lagator, Clara Muñiz-Diez, Tom Beesley, Mark Haselgrove

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Bonobos track but might not represent ignorance. 倭黑猩猩会跟踪，但可能并不代表无知。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000405

Susana Monsó

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Migrating Bogong moths navigate by the stars. 迁徙的博贡飞蛾靠星星导航。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000406

Verner P Bingman

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Starlings solve the ephemeral reward task. 欧椋鸟解决了短暂的奖励任务。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000415

Marco Vasconcelos, Guilherme Hoffmann, Cyrus Kirkman, Aaron P Blaisdell, Armando Machado

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Ephemeral reward task: Why is it so difficult for pigeons to learn it? 短暂奖励任务：为什么鸽子很难学会？

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000397

Daniel Peng, Zohaib Iqbal, Thomas R Zentall

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