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Cognitive flexibility in urban yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata. 城市黄獴（Cynictis penicillata）的认知灵活性。

IF 2.7 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01839-9

Mijke Müller, Neville Pillay

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On the value of advanced information about delayed rewards. 关于延迟奖励的先进信息的价值。

IF 2.7 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01856-8

Alejandro Macías, Armando Machado, Marco Vasconcelos

{"title":"On the value of advanced information about delayed rewards.","authors":"Alejandro Macías, Armando Machado, Marco Vasconcelos","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01856-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01856-8","url":null,"abstract":"In a variety of laboratory preparations, several animal species prefer signaled over unsignaled outcomes. Here we examine whether pigeons prefer options that signal the delay to reward over options that do not and how this preference changes with the ratio of the delays. We offered pigeons repeated choices between two alternatives leading to a short or a long delay to reward. For one alternative (informative), the short and long delays were reliably signaled by different stimuli (e.g., SS for short delays, SL for long delays). For the other (non-informative), the delays were not reliably signaled by the stimuli presented (S1 and S2). Across conditions, we varied the durations of the short and long delays, hence their ratio, while keeping the average delay to reward constant. Pigeons preferred the informative over the non-informative option and this preference became stronger as the ratio of the long to the short delay increased. A modified version of the Δ-Σ hypothesis (González et al., J Exp Anal Behav 113(3):591-608. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.595 , 2020a) incorporating a contrast-like process between the immediacies to reward signaled by each stimulus accounted well for our findings. Functionally, we argue that a preference for signaled delays hinges on the potential instrumental advantage typically conveyed by information.","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907439/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140011983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Available and unavailable decoys in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) decision-making. 卷尾猴（Sapajus spp.）决策中可用和不可用的诱饵。

IF 2.7 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01860-y

Marco Marini, Edoardo Colaiuda, Serena Gastaldi, Elsa Addessi, Fabio Paglieri

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Bolder together: conformity drives behavioral plasticity in eastern gartersnakes. 更大胆地团结在一起：顺应潮流是东部袜带蛇行为可塑性的驱动力。

IF 2.7 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01859-5

Morgan Skinner, Gokulan Nagabaskaran, Tom Gantert, Noam Miller

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Human social buffer in goats and dogs. 山羊和狗的人类社会缓冲区。

IF 2.7 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01861-x

Anna Scandurra, Biagio D'Aniello, Maria Elena Pero, Claudia Pinelli, Alfredo Di Lucrezia, Raffaella Tudisco, Piera Iommelli, Vincenzo Mastellone, Pietro Lombardi

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Correction: Why an animal needs a brain 更正：为什么动物需要大脑？

IF 1.9 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01834-6

Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin

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Why an animal needs a brain 为什么动物需要大脑?

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2023-12-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01825-7

Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin

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Chemical cognition: chemoconnectomics and convergent evolution of integrative systems in animals 化学认知:动物整合系统的化学连接组学和趋同进化。

IF 1.9 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01833-7

Leonid L. Moroz, Daria Y. Romanova

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Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again) 基本认知：重心的转移（再次）。

IF 1.9 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01832-8

Pamela Lyon, Ken Cheng

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Hoarding titmice predominantly use Familiarity, and not Recollection, when remembering cache locations 囤积山雀在记忆缓存位置时主要使用熟悉度，而不是重新收集。

IF 1.9 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2023-10-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01829-3

Tom V. Smulders, Laura J. Douglas, Daniel Reza, Lucinda H. Male, Alexander Prysce, Amélie Alix, Alexander de Guzman Dodd, Jenny C. A. Read

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