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Pigeons' (Columba livia) intertemporal choice in binary-choice and patch-leaving contexts. 鸽子（Columba livia）在二元选择和斑块离开情境中的跨时空选择。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1037/com0000387

Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Quinn Gray, Sarah Cowie

{"title":"Pigeons' (Columba livia) intertemporal choice in binary-choice and patch-leaving contexts.","authors":"Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Quinn Gray, Sarah Cowie","doi":"10.1037/com0000387","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000387","url":null,"abstract":"Typical approaches to study self-control present subjects with a simultaneous choice between a larger-later (LL) reinforcer and a smaller-sooner (SS) reinforcer. In contrast, in patch-leaving tasks, subjects choose between staying at a patch for an SS (or LL) reinforcer and leaving for an LL (or SS) reinforcer. Previous studies show that blue jays, monkeys, humans, and rats prefer the SS reinforcer in binary-choice tasks, whereas the same subjects prefer the LL reinforcer in equivalent patch-leaving tasks. The current study systematically replicated this research using pigeons. Six pigeons responded in a binary-choice task and in two patch-leaving tasks in which staying led to an LL (Patch-L) or SS (Patch-S) reinforcer. Across conditions, the SS reinforcer delay varied from 5 to 55 s; the LL reinforcer delay was always 60 s. In binary-choice conditions, subjects preferred the SS reinforcer. In Patch-L and Patch-S conditions, subjects preferred the LL and SS reinforcer, respectively, reflecting a bias to stay at the patch. This bias persisted when the stay response was more effortful and when the delays to both reinforcers were equal. This may reflect a species-specific win-stay bias and the differential consequences of staying (which led to a stimulus signaling food) versus leaving (which led to a stimulus never associated with food). Thus, we propose a conditioned-reinforcement account of intertemporal choice in patch-leaving contexts. We suggest several avenues for further investigations of the mechanisms underlying intertemporal choice in different contexts and question the economic equivalence of the operant and patch-leaving procedures. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"26-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019609","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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Melodic and harmonic chromatic interval processing by pigeons (Columba livia).

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1037/com0000388

Robert G Cook

{"title":"Melodic and harmonic chromatic interval processing by pigeons (Columba livia).","authors":"Robert G Cook","doi":"10.1037/com0000388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000388","url":null,"abstract":"Music is a ubiquitous feature of human behavior. Yet the origins of human musicality remain poorly understood. One attractive approach has investigated the distribution and components of musicality among nonhuman animals. Here I tested four highly trained pigeons in three experiments for their capacity to discriminate the intervals of the chromatic scale. Using an auditory go/no-go same/different task, the pigeons discriminated intervals spanning different numbers of semitones on each trial as synthesized with two musical instruments (cello and organ). Experiment 1 examined this discrimination using a successive melodic context, while Experiment 2 used a simultaneous harmonic context. Experiment 3 tested pure tones in both contexts. The pigeons were sensitive to the distance among the pitch intervals, but examination of specific diagnostic intervals revealed little evidence for any contribution of human-like musical consonance (perfect fifth and octave) and dissonance (tritone and major seventh) to the discrimination. Although more accomplished in the auditory modality than widely assumed, the current state of the evidence suggests pigeons, while sensitive to the pitched nature of sound, lack essential capacities needed for music perception. The evolutionary implications for the comparative psychology of music are considered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"139 1","pages":"42-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494956","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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Form over function: Striped skunks (mephitis mephitis) learn arbitrary visual patterns to solve the slat-pulling task.

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1037/com0000384

Zoe Johnson-Ulrich, Eric Hoffmaster, Audrey Robeson, Jennifer Vonk

{"title":"Form over function: Striped skunks (mephitis mephitis) learn arbitrary visual patterns to solve the slat-pulling task.","authors":"Zoe Johnson-Ulrich, Eric Hoffmaster, Audrey Robeson, Jennifer Vonk","doi":"10.1037/com0000384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000384","url":null,"abstract":"Striped skunks are omnivorous generalists with patchily distributed food-two selection pressures that are purported to drive the evolution of cognition. Despite this, the cognitive abilities of skunks have rarely been tested. Using the slat-pulling task, we assessed the ability of three striped skunks to reason about the visual patterns of support when two slats were presented (one supporting a food item). We used both functional slats (real wooden slats that gave subjects both visual and functional information when manipulated) and purely representational slats in an arbitrary version of the task (painted lines that provided only visual information). All three skunks found the arbitrary task difficult to learn but nevertheless learned to solve it after thousands of trials. They appeared to respond to visual patterns of contact and perceptual containment between food and painted lines to solve several configurations of the task. Interestingly, only one of three skunks learned to pull supportive over unsupportive slats (despite the addition of functional information). This subject had first learned the visual pattern associated with reward in the arbitrary version, thus showing the transfer of visual patterns from the arbitrary to the functional task. Overall, striped skunks demonstrated the ability to use visual patterns to solve problems despite their relatively poor vision and difficulty in learning the tasks. These findings provide further support for the idea that slat-pulling tasks can be solved by visual pattern learning alone and that this possibility needs to be controlled for in tasks assessing abstract causal reasoning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"139 1","pages":"55-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494954","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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The impact of training method on odor learning and generalization in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). 训练方法对狗（Canis lupus familiaris）气味学习和泛化的影响。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1037/com0000390

Lyn Caldicott, Thomas W Pike, Helen E Zulch, Victoria F Ratcliffe, Anna Wilkinson

{"title":"The impact of training method on odor learning and generalization in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris).","authors":"Lyn Caldicott, Thomas W Pike, Helen E Zulch, Victoria F Ratcliffe, Anna Wilkinson","doi":"10.1037/com0000390","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000390","url":null,"abstract":"Detection dogs are required to learn and alert to multiple different odors during training and to generalize this learning to similar odors when working. They should be both sensitive to variation in the target odors and specific enough to avoid false alerts, but how readily they achieve this is likely to depend on the training method employed. The majority of agencies train by presenting single target odors in isolation, and adding additional odors consecutively, although recent research with rats suggests intermixing the target odors concurrently throughout training may be a more effective approach. This study therefore tested the relative efficacy of intermixed training in dogs. Using an odor-detection lineup, pet dogs were trained to detect two target odors, A and B. Those allocated to the \"sequential\" group were trained to criterion on odor A and then trained on odor B (or vice versa), the \"compound\" group were trained on a mixture of AB, and the \"intermixed\" group trained on A and B concurrently. Each dog was then tested on all combinations of the test stimuli (A, B, and AB), as well as combinations containing a novel interferent (AC, BC, and ABC). Results revealed that dogs trained by the intermixed method made significantly more correct (true positive) indications, and significantly fewer miss (false negative) indications than the other two methods, suggesting that intermixed training is more effective than currently used alternative training methods. Thus, for improved performance and generalization, we recommend detection dog training should use an intermixed method of training. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481298","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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Together again but no need to play: Dissociating effects of isolation and separation on social interaction in female rats (Rattus norvegicus). 又在一起了，但没必要玩：隔离和分离对雌性大鼠（Rattus norvegicus）社会互动的分离效应。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1037/com0000382

Noah Steckley, Amber Thatcher, Susan M Greene, Heather Warner, Kendra Kuehn, Nathan Insel

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One smell, two smells, intermixed, combined, or queued smells: What training procedure promotes the best generalization of odor detection by dogs?

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1037/com0000413

Michael J Beran

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Beyond the information (not) given: Associative mechanisms versus representations of uncertainty in extinction in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus). 超越（未）给出的信息：实验鼠（Rattus norvegicus）消退过程中的联想机制与不确定性表征。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1037/com0000380

Patricia Gasalla, Jaime Figueroa, Michael R Waldmann, Dominic M Dwyer

{"title":"Beyond the information (not) given: Associative mechanisms versus representations of uncertainty in extinction in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus).","authors":"Patricia Gasalla, Jaime Figueroa, Michael R Waldmann, Dominic M Dwyer","doi":"10.1037/com0000380","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000380","url":null,"abstract":"Associative learning models typically reflect statistical relationships between experienced events. Causal models can go beyond this information to specify the ways in which events are related. This meta-representational aspect of causal models allows them to reflect uncertainty about relationships between events: for example, if a light initially leads to sucrose but subsequently the light is experienced without sucrose, this might first support formation of a light-causes-sucrose model and subsequently lead to uncertainty over whether the model remained accurate. Prior studies of Pavlovian conditioning in rats manipulated sucrose-magazine access during extinction to produce uncertainty about reward presence or absence. Rats were sensitive to covering of the site of reward delivery, which was interpreted as evidence for a causal-model account reflecting uncertainty. However, associative accounts-based on the direct impact of the dipper mechanism used to deliver sucrose through secondary reinforcement or contextual renewal of responding-can also explain the results. In two new experiments, manipulation of the dipper mechanism through extinction and test phases resulted in behavior consistent with these associative accounts. However, demonstration of the importance of the sucrose dipper suggests that the reward delivery mechanism should be included in a causal model. Such a revised causal model also provides an account of the impact of manipulating the sucrose dipper. While these experiments do not conclusively decide between associative and causal models as explanations of rodent behavior, they do illustrate the value of incremental experimental study and the importance of methodological detail in addressing questions of comparative cognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"69-79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632957","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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The effect of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and methamphetamine on sustained attention in the jumping spider (Trite planiceps). δ -9四氢大麻酚和甲基苯丙胺对跳蛛持续注意力的影响。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1037/com0000396

Bonnie Humphrey, Michelle Glass, Jonathan Hill, Amy J Osborne, Daniel B Stouffer, Alexandra Noble, William S Helton, Shuli Chen, Ximena J Nelson

{"title":"The effect of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and methamphetamine on sustained attention in the jumping spider (Trite planiceps).","authors":"Bonnie Humphrey, Michelle Glass, Jonathan Hill, Amy J Osborne, Daniel B Stouffer, Alexandra Noble, William S Helton, Shuli Chen, Ximena J Nelson","doi":"10.1037/com0000396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000396","url":null,"abstract":"Decreasing responsiveness to repeated visual stimuli (i.e., the inability to sustain attention) in jumping spiders (Salticidae) parallels that found in humans. In humans, drugs affect vigilance, and previous work on salticids has shown that the \"vigilance decrement\" is unlikely to be sensory habituation and that caffeine ameliorates reductions in attention. We exposed Trite planiceps to delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and methamphetamine before presenting them with a repeated visual stimulus. In the THC experiment, spiders were given a THC solution, water, or a vehicle solution, using a within-subjects design. The orienting response (i.e., \"interest\") of salticids on a track ball to face a fly stimulus presented peripherally on a monitor was scored, as well as \"general movement\" (e.g., walking, as a control for physical fatigue) and \"no movement.\" The methamphetamine experiment was identical except that salticids were given methamphetamine solution or water. In both the THC and methamphetamine treatments, general movement dropped over time, while in control treatments, this was constant. Additionally, due to an initial stimulating effect of methamphetamine on interest, the response decrement was significantly steeper when spiders were administered methamphetamine compared with water. Our results suggest that the modulation of sustained attention, and possibly motivation, is likely in salticids. basic local alignment search tool genome queries on a closely related species and pharmacological radioligand experiments suggested that salticids do not possess cannabinoid receptors, but the presence of transient receptor potential proteins may help explain the small behavioral changes observed with THC. In contrast, how methamphetamine affects salticids remains unknown. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142820378","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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Effect of resource-associated signals on producer responses: Insights from golden fish (Carassius auratus) and an agent-based model. 资源相关信号对生产者反应的影响：来自金鱼（Carassius auratus）和基于主体的模型的见解。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1037/com0000400

Laurent Avila-Chauvet, Juan Elenes-Rivera, Diana Mejía Cruz, Yancarlo L Ojeda Aguilar

{"title":"Effect of resource-associated signals on producer responses: Insights from golden fish (Carassius auratus) and an agent-based model.","authors":"Laurent Avila-Chauvet, Juan Elenes-Rivera, Diana Mejía Cruz, Yancarlo L Ojeda Aguilar","doi":"10.1037/com0000400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000400","url":null,"abstract":"In social foraging situations, some group members actively engage in behaviors associated with searching for patch zones (produce), while others join previously discovered patch zones (scrounge). Pavlovian conditioning enables individuals to anticipate a biologically significant event or unconditioned stimulus, such as resource availability, when paired with another event, such as a blue light, also known as a conditioned stimulus (CS). Considering that individuals' prior experiences with habitat features may influence their preference for producer or scrounger responses, this study aims to assess the impact of resource-associated signals on the group produce index. Specifically, the study seeks to (a) outline a setup for goldfish (Carassius auratus) incorporating renewable patch zones, (b) evaluate the CS's effect on the proportion of producers, and (c) develop an agent-based model capturing the CS's effect on the proportion of producers. Eight goldfish were used, with half undergoing a delayed Pavlovian acquisition protocol. Pavlovian-trained and control fish were assessed under signal and nonsignal conditions. The findings reveal that the producer index in the signal condition was higher for the Pavlovian group than the control group. To simulate conditions to those observed in fish, we developed an agent-based model where Pavlovian agents oriented themselves toward the nearest patch zone when the CS was present. The results mirrored those observed in fish, indicating an advantage derived from preexposure to the CS. This study contributes to the investigation of individual disparities and the impact of learning within the framework of the producer-scrounger game. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787777","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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Cyclical variations in acoustic features within the song sessions of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). 座头鲸（Megaptera novaeangliae）唱歌过程中声学特征的周期性变化。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1037/com0000401

Eduardo Mercado, Mary Ryan, Mariam Ashour, Gala Krsmanovic, Samantha McAllister, Christina E Perazio, Julia Hyland Bruno

{"title":"Cyclical variations in acoustic features within the song sessions of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).","authors":"Eduardo Mercado, Mary Ryan, Mariam Ashour, Gala Krsmanovic, Samantha McAllister, Christina E Perazio, Julia Hyland Bruno","doi":"10.1037/com0000401","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000401","url":null,"abstract":"Song sessions produced by humpback whales recorded off the coasts of Hawaii and Colombia show recurrent patterns of acoustic variation across consecutive songs. Analyses of intra-individual variations within continuous song sessions revealed that songs consistently cycled through stages of acoustic complexity. At time scales spanning tens of minutes, cyclical variations likely reflected the diving behavior of singers. Changes over shorter time frames suggest that singing humpback whales may also systematically modulate the acoustic complexity of individual sounds during song production, both by gradually morphing units and by varying the number of times they repeat sound patterns. Comparable cycles were evident across years and populations. Cyclical variations within song sessions can reveal how much time and energy singers spend producing tonal versus frequency-modulated/broadband elements. Tonal components are generally more difficult to localize spatially but easier to detect over long distances, suggesting that singing humpback whales may dynamically vary sound production in ways that affect both sound transmission and auditory spatial processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787730","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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