Jennifer Vonk
Jennifer Vonk
Bastos and Krupenye (2026, Science, 391: 583-586) present an innovative series of studies in which they explore the capacity of a single enculturated bonobo, Kanzi, to represent pretend objects-in other words-"imagination." Their experiment...
Static outcomes: Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation at Fp3 or P3 does not modulate perceptual learning as indexed by the intermixed-blocked effect [0.03%]
静止效果：Fp3或P3位点的阳极经颅直流电刺激不能通过嵌套式阻断效应调节知觉学习
Scott P Jones,Bailey Ajayi,Harriet J F Reid et al.
Scott P Jones et al.
Perceptual learning can be defined as a relatively permanent change in discrimination performance as a result of experience or exposure. One key index of perceptual learning is the intermixed-blocked effect in which exposure to two ambiguou...
A method for visual psychophysics based on the navigational behavior of desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) [0.03%]
基于沙漠蚂蚁(Melophorus bagoti)导航行为的视觉心理物理学方法
Sudhakar Deeti,Vito Lionetti,Ken Cheng
Sudhakar Deeti
The Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti is known to navigate in its complex visual environment relying on path integration and landmark learning. We investigated the navigational behavior of desert ants in response to visual stimulus ch...
Eleanor H Simpson,Peter D Balsam
Eleanor H Simpson
Temporal patterns of experiences dictate the depths and rates of learning, forgetting, and extinction but the biological processes involved are fundamentally unknown. Kukushkin et al. (2024) demonstrate that nonneuronal cells in culture can...
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara
Recent evidence shows that naïve domestic chicks match sounds to shapes in ways strikingly similar to humans. Theoretical accounts linking the bouba-kiki effect to physical regularities in the environment suggest that cross-modal correspon...
Edward A Wasserman,Odysseus R P Orr,Sophia Li
Edward A Wasserman
Rewards strengthen behaviors they follow. This principle, articulated in Thorndike's Law of Effect, is foundational to behavioral science-but it obscures two different ways behaviors may be strengthened. First, and axiomatic, is that the fr...
Michael J Beran
Michael J Beran
Schleihauf et al. (2025) provided a compelling set of experiments that demonstrate that chimpanzees will change their choices when given new evidence about one or more of those choice options. Although chimpanzees clearly update expectation...
Comparisons of extinction, counterconditioning, and novelty-facilitated extinction within ABA vs. ABC renewal designs [0.03%]
ABA与ABC范式下的消退、转化 conditioning和新颖性促进的消退的比较
Jérémie Jozefowiez,Audrey G Huff,Lucas Petruzzo et al.
Jérémie Jozefowiez et al.
The expression of an association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) can be weakened by presenting the CS by itself (extinction [Ext]), pairing it with an appetitive US (counterconditioning [CC]),...
What it means to be a mimic [0.03%]
何谓模仿专家
Fiona R Cross
Fiona R Cross
Animals may mimic other individuals in different ways, but a question remains of how closely an individual should resemble another to be treated as a "mimic." Results from recent research can help us gain new insights and consider new metho...
Impact of sequential organization on auditory same/different discrimination by pigeons [0.03%]
串行组织对鸽子听觉相同/不同辨别的影响
Muhammad A J Qadri,Matthew S Murphy,Robert G Cook
Muhammad A J Qadri
Sequential information processing by animals is a fundamental component of understanding cognition in nonhuman species. Auditory processing is especially important given its implications for acoustic communication, language, and music evolu...