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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"behavioral flexibility"”.
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Behavioral Flexibility and Foraging Strategies in Cassin's and Western Kingbirds (Tyrannus Vociferans and T. Verticalis) Breeding Sympatrically in Riparian Habitats in Central Arizona
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COGNITIVE DECLINE WITH AGE: ROLE OF STRIATAL CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM AND GROWTH HORMONE
… function, brain regions involved in memory and behavioral flexibility, respectively, and to investigate potential factors associated with cognitive decline.
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Consciousness, Representation, and Flexibility
… to beings other than ourselves, suggesting that behavioral flexibility may play an important role.
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Ethnoprimatology of Urban Cebus Yuracus: An evaluation of Human-non-human interactions and local perceptions in Misahualli, Ecuador
… of the local people about the capuchin group. Behavioral interactions were examined using all-occurrence sampling, and the local perceptions of the Misahuallí people were assessed using semi-structured interviews. In total, 2,103 human-capuchin behavioral interactions were recorded. The …
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Lemur catta in the Region of Cap Sainte-Marie, Madagascar: Introduced cacti, xerophytic Didiereaceae-Euphorbia bush, and tombs
… to test hypotheses on the following themes: a) behavioral flexibility, b) ecology, health, and nutrition, c) the shared use of space with humans, and d) the utilization of nonnative species. Significant findings include: extremely large home ranges, highly social and spatially cohesive: juvenile …
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WOLF HOMESITE SELECTION AND DEN CHARACTERISTICS IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA
… results highlight an additional facet of the behavioral flexibility that has allowed wolves to inhabit a wide range of ecosystems across their Holarctic distribution.</p>
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Attention in a meaningful world: brain responses to behavioral relevance
… social organisms, as well as our capability for behavioral flexibility, the attention system should be sensitive not only to low-level stimulus features, but also to complex stimuli that provide behaviorally relevant information. Three separate lines of research will be presented, each one …
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Birdie see, Birdie do: Zebra finch observational learning in three cognitive domains with discussion of cerebellar involvement
… to improvements in decision-making and increased behavioral flexibility. While studies of animals’ observational learning capabilities and the types of information acquired have been examined in many species, multiple types of observational learning have rarely been examined in non-rodent species …
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Investigating the role of extrasynaptic GABAA receptors located in the infralimbic cortex in the binge-like alcohol intake of male C57BL/6J mice
… learning processes, which in turn, promote behavioral flexibility.
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Tactical Escape Behavior and Performance of a Small Sceloporine Lizard in Two High Risk Habitats
… these microhabitat features can influence behavioral tactics in complex environments. The ability to negotiate physical barriers in dense environments likely influences survivorship through important ecological tasks, such as finding mates, foraging, and evading predators. The Florida scrub …
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Cooperation And Competition In Paper Wasp And Human Societies
… wasp Polistes dominulus, as individuals display behavioral flexibility and benefit from investing in both cooperation and conflict. In chapter 3, I use field and lab experiments test theoretical predictions that P. dominulus may not face a simple tradeoff between within-group cooperation and …
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Gender Role Orientation in Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships
… that androgynous individuals exhibit greater behavioral flexibility from one situation to another. Androgynous individuals were expected to provide a broader range of interpersonal rewards, forming stronger and more rewarding friendships than gender-typed individuals. In addition, androgynous …
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Behavioral and Hormonal Flexibility Across Light Environments in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
… light intensity environments may have important behavioral consequences. One approach to understanding changes in behavior is by studying behavioral syndromes, suites of correlated behaviors reflecting between individual consistencies in behavior expressed within a behavioral situation (e.g., …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Psychological Androgyny and College Adjustment Among Korean American College Students
… examined the relationship between androgynous flexibility and the college adjustment of Korean American students. Androgynous flexibility was investigated in terms of college adjustment.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> The sample population consisted of 153 Korean American college students from six …
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: An Investigation of Rock Squirrel (Otospermophilus variegatus) Behavioral Response to Anthropogenic Change
… (Otospermophilus variegatus), often exhibit behavioral flexibility in response to changing environments. While rock squirrels play vital roles in natural ecosystems, they also have the capacity to adjust to urban environments, which may involve altered habitat use, potential synanthropy, and …
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Investigating temporal change in Fauresmith technology: Insights from Rooidam 2, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
… despite the need for a more standardized and behaviorally meaningful understanding of these highly variable assemblages. Rooidam 2 is a pan site lying on the outskirts of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province, with an excavated sealed and stratified Fauresmith sequence. The site is a …
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Dopamine and the Temporal Dependence of Learning and Memory
… learning have been well characterized at the behavioral level, the molecular and circuit mechanisms for this temporal sensitivity remain incompletely understood. Using the simple architecture of the mushroom body, an olfactory associative learning center in Drosophila, I examined how the …
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Sex differences in exercise-mediated changes in diet preference and its associated cognitive and metabolic outcomes
… differences in peripheral metabolic function and behavioral flexibility resulting from chronic HF feeding. In Chapter 4, an additional assessment of cognitive behavior was added where heightened impulsivity, a behavior associated with poor dietary self-regulation, binge eating, and obesity, was …
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The Internal Orchestration of a Courtship Ritual in Drosophila
… possibility that these seemingly idiosyncratic behavioral decisions can be understood by accessing the hidden internal motivations that spur an animal to do one thing in lieu of another. By leveraging the compact brain architecture and rich social behaviors of the fruit fly Drosophila …
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Cognitive variation in threespined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
… in learning outcomes (i.e., differences in behavioral flexibility) by asking whether individual differences in reversal learning performance were more strongly associated with variation in boldness, neophobia and/or inhibitory control. I found that early performance on reversal learning …
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