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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"comparative psychology"”.
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From Animals to Algorithms: Comparative Psychology for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
… interdisciplinary dissertation, I argue that a comparative psychological approach can help. Comparative psychologists have created methodological tools for studying the behaviour of another class of complex system, non-human animals. While many have advocated for conducting behavioural …
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An Anscombean Approach to Animal Agency
… Agency and, despite its widespread acceptance in comparative psychology, cognitive ethology, and the philosophy of animal minds, I argue that it faces serious problems. This thesis divides roughly into two halves corresponding to these respective aims. In the first half I argue against the …
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The Comparison of Human and Machine Performance in Object Recognition
… with human performance using principles from comparative psychology. Chapter 2 introduces a psychologically grounded framework for comparing human and machine object categorisation performance, focusing on different presentation times and task complexities. The results indicate that while …
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain
A longstanding question at the intersection of comparative psychology, cognitive ethology, and cognitive neuroscience is what cognitive strategies primates use to tackle complex multi-step decisions, and what are the neural underpinnings of the strategies. Traditionally, cognitive experiments come …
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An Examination of Aggressive Behavior in Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops Aduncus</i>)
<p>Agonistic behavior is often observed in animal groups in which individuals have long-term relationships. Although bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) are known to behave aggressively, relatively little is known about such behavior among wild animals. Much of the data on delphiilid aggression …
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Variation in Social Behavior Throughout the Estrous Cycle of a Captive Killer Whale <i>Orcinus orca</i>
<p>The study of cetaceans in captivity provides information on behavior, acoustics, reproduction and physiology that is often difficult to obtain with free-ranging populations. The present study examined the influence of the estrous cycle of a captive female killer whale on the rate, duration, …
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Site Fidelity and Association Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i> in the Mississippi Sound
<p>The current study examined the site fidelity and association patterns of a community of 678 wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Mississippi Sound (Sound) over a three-year period (May 2004 - April 2007). Using photoidentification techniques, 74% (n = 498) of the identified …
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Seasonal and Diurnal Behavioral Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins, <i>Tursiops truncatus</i>, That Exhibit High Site and Low Site Fidelity to Mississippi Sound
<p>This study examined whether bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) exhibit site fidelity to the Mississippi Sound and how the seasonal and diurnal behavioral patterns of dolphins that exhibit high site fidelity to the Mississippi Sound differ from those of dolphins with lower site fidelity. …
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Vocal Response of Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>) to a Novel Stimulus
<p>Bottlenose dolphins utilize acoustic signals as their primary mode of communication. Although some aspects of dolphin vocal behavior are well understood, less is known about vocalizations in different behavioral contexts and how these vocal behaviors may indicate habituation and sensitization. …
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Towards a Better Understanding of Zebrafish Sleep Behavior
<p>Sleep serves many vital functions in humans, ranging from energy restoration to memory consolidation and information integration. Sleep deprivation is linked to worsened physiological states and psychological conditions. Zebrafish are an emerging model in neurobehavioral research and have …
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Using Personality Traits to Predict Pectoral Fin Contact Initiation Role in Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
<p>Contact with the pectoral fin facilitates formation and maintenance of social relationships between dolphins (Dudzinski & Ribic, 2017). Additionally, several studies have shown that bottlenose dolphins have distinct personalities that are consistent across time and situation (e.g., Highfill & …
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The Conundrum of Causal Reasoning in Elephants
… been inconsistent. A standardized paradigm for comparative causal reasoning studies does not exist. Nissani (2006) investigated causal reasoning in a tool-use task with elephants and concluded that elephants were not capable of causal reasoning. The current study, a modified replication, yielded …
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Grooming as an Agonistic Behavior in Garnett’s Small-Eared Bushbaby (<i>Otolemur garnettii</i>)
<p>Social behaviors are a necessary component of group living and interactions between organisms. To correctly assess social interactions, researchers must be able to observe behaviors and interpret their function based on the behavior or the behavioral context. In primate species, grooming is …
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What Makes Our Minds Human? Comparative Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Cognition
… the `what' of human cognitive evolution through comparative studies with chimpanzees and bonobos. The general aim of these studies is to understand which aspects of cognition are unique to humans, and which are shared with our closest living relatives. Chapters 2-3 test the hypothesis that humans …
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The Effects of Pre-Trial Event Stimulus Properties on Timing in the Peak Interval Procedure
<p>In the peak interval procedure, intruded conditioned stimuli produce shifts in peak/middle time towards later values, regardless of whether these stimuli are presented prior to or during the timing signal. Although the effects of during-trial stimulus properties—temporal location, duration, and …
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Development of Semantic Reference for Location Symbols by Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>) Using a Two-Way Communication Keyboard
<p>The ability for humans to communicate with another species has been an aspiration and well documented. One example is through training animals to make associations between a designated cue and conditioned response (Pryor, 1986). Two-way communication, however, in which both species can express …
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Do Pinnipeds Have Personality? Coding Harbor Seal (<i>Phoca vitulina</i>) and California Sea Lion (<i>Zalophus californianus</i>) Behavior Across Contexts
<p>Personality has now been studied in species as diverse as chimpanzees (King & Figueredo, 1997) and cuttlefish (Carere et al., 2015), but marine mammals remain vastly underrepresented in this area. A broad range of traits have been assessed only in the bottlenose dolphin (Highfilll & Kuczaj, …
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Neuroethology of Social Attention in Primates
<p>To solicit the attention or determine the intentions of another, we use our eyes. While many animals appear to use eyes as an important behavioral cue, for humans, these cues are especially critical. The power of the eyes to attract and direct attention shapes human behavior from an early age …
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First Thirty Days of Life: Examining Calf Behavioral Development in Beluga Whales (<i>Delphinapterus leucas</i>) and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins (<i>Lagenorhyncus obliquidens</i>) at One Zoological Facility
<p>Cetacean development is important for general comparative understanding and the implementation of informed husbandry policies. Due to the inaccessibility of many of these species in the wild, researchers can study managed care populations to better understand basic developmental patterns of …
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