Behavioural Processes

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Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	55
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	43
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	30
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	28
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	27
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	23
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	20
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	19
Learning about reward identities and time	19
Daily running trials increase sprint speed in endangered lizards (Gallotia simonyi)	19
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	19
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	17
Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives	17
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	16
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	14
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	14
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	14
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	14
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	14
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	13
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	13
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	13
An investigation of population variation in maze exploration and its predictors in wild Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	12
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	12
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	12

Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	12
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	12
Influence of web traits, height, and daily periods of exposition on prey captured by orb-weaver spiders	12
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	11
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	11
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	11
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	10
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	10
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	10
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	10
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Contextualising courtship: Exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	9
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	8
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	8
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	8
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	8
Persistent fine-tuning of egg rejection based on parasitic timing in a cuckoo host even after relaxation of parasitism pressure	8
Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks	8
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	8
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	8
Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	8
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	8
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	8
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	7
Resurgence increases with repetition	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	7
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	7
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	7
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	7
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Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	7
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay	7
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Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	7

Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)	7
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	7
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
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Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	7
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Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	6
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	6
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	6
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	6
Effort-motivated behavior resolves paradoxes in appetitive conditioning	6
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	6
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)	6
Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction	6
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	6
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Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	6
Domestication effects on aggressiveness: Comparison of biting motivation and bite force between wild and domesticated finches	5
Non-individualistic ultrasonic and audible isolation calls throughout ontogeny in a rodent, Eolagurus luteus	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Analixity: An open source, low-cost analysis system for the elevated plus maze test, based on computer vision techniques	5
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Stimulus characteristics, learning bias and visual discrimination in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	4
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	4
Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: Male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
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The effectiveness of Go/Nogo dual-task is modulated by SOA and Go/Nogo ratio	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure	4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	4
Foraging decisions of rock lizards may be dependent both on current rival assessment and dear enemy recognition	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Gain-loss asymmetry in delay and effort discounting of different amounts	4
Infant handling increases grooming towards mothers in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future	3
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An introduction to “discrete choice experiments” for behavior analysts	3
Search image formation for spider prey in a mud dauber wasp.	3
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Rats can spontaneously discriminate different rhythms: An investigation using an automated habituation-dishabituation paradigm	3

Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	3
An investigation of turn alternation in two species of terrestrial isopods: Porcellio spinicornis and Trachelipus rathkii	3
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Reproductive advantage of the winners of male-male competition in Drosophila prolongata	3
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A mixed-species shoal including fewer heterospecifics is preferred by jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus juveniles	3
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	3
Previous experience alters individual vulnerability to angling of crucian carp (Carassius auratus)	3
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	3
The consistency of exploration behaviours across life stages in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	3
Using social network analysis to confirm the ‘gambit of the group’ hypothesis for a small cetacean	3
Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year	3
Sexual stimulation of captive Iberian ibex bucks (Capra pyrenaica): Effect of male social rank on the response to estrous females	3
Effects of delay sequence in a delay discounting task	3
A standardised ethogram for the Psittaciformes	3
Behavioural responses to separation from human companion in the domestic cat: A survey-based study	3
Uncertainty in foraging success and its consequences on fitness	3
Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Corrigendum to “Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals” [Behav. Proc. 231, September 2025, 105244]	3
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time	3
The role of stimulus combinations in the repeated assessment of resurgence	3
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3D-printed operant chambers for rats: Design, assembly, and innovations	3
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes	3
First insights into social behavioral patterns between pairs of bait-attracted mature female tiger sharks from Fuvahmulah Island, Maldives	3
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	3
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SQAB 2022: New directions in learning research	3
Boldness and learning in an active foraging lizard	3
Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals	3
Horses can learn to identify joy and sadness against other basic emotions from human facial expressions	3
Streamlining boldness measurement in fish: A practical approach to field studies	3
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Stress-related impairment of fear memory acquisition and disruption of risk assessment behavior in female but not in male mice	3
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Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	3
Individual and group behavioral responses to nutritional state and context in a social fish	3
Recently encountered delay lengths produce contrast effects on delay discounting	3
Limited influence of hunting on the activity patterns and habitat use of Pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus) in agroecosystems of central Argentina	3
Regulation of sex differences in risk-based decision making by gonadal hormones: Insights from rodent models	3
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Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?	3
Motivating operations as contexts for operant discrimination training and testing	3
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	3
Sexual maturity, lack of partner choice and sperm precedence in the promiscuous ladybird beetle Eriopis connexa (Germar): Who is my father?	3
Activity behavior of goitered gazelles in an arid environment	3
Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs	3
The acoustic behavior of the Brazilian caatinga big rodent is incongruent to its actual position in Hydrochoerinae	3
Almost there: Learning to navigate approximately with a grid map	3
Using the ‘stranger test’ to assess social competency in adult female Long Evans rats reared with a Fischer 344 partner	3
Locomotor play behavior evolves by random genetic drift but not as a correlated response to selective breeding for high voluntary wheel-running behavior	2
Are domestic chickens born with predator recognition? Validation of a sound playback experiment	2
The elusive nature of forward blocking effect on running-based taste aversion learning in laboratory rats	2
Behavioural reactivity testing in sheep indicates the presence of multiple temperament traits	2
The effect of adulteration with a bitter tastant, denatonium benzoate, on the reinforcing value of sucrose	2
Noise-induced vocal shifts in the Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus) vocal distribution in two different habitats	2
Runway extinction in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): Instrumental or Pavlovian?	2
Development of an apparatus for evaluating the visual and olfactory discrimination ability of cattle under controlled target visibility	2
Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration	2
Predation risk in two Patagonian Liolaemus lizards: Similar escape behaviour in different environmental contexts	2
ABA and AAB renewal of alcohol seeking in rats are reduced by exposure to beer before extinction	2
Evaluation of the capability of oil specific discrimination in detection dogs	2
Decrease in the rewarding value of spatial novelty due to the contamination of the stimulus field with light – Evidence from a free exploration test involving rats	2
Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans	2
Relational abilities index: A experimental study of the procedure at different trial durations	2
Sheep's coping style can be identified by unsupervised machine learning from unlabeled data	2
Tactile cues are important to environmental novelty during repeated open field tests	2
Consistency of cognitive performance in spatial navigation and its link to activity and boldness in laboratory rats	2
Disentangling the “many-eyes”, “dilution effect”, “selfish herd”, and “distracted prey” hypotheses in shaping alert and flight initiation distance in a colonial seabird	2
Social attributes shape antipredator behavior strategies in the ruddy ground-dove	2
Innate visual discrimination abilities of zebrafish larvae	2
The emergence and early development of socio-sexual behavior in beluga calves (Delphinapterus leucas)	2
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Punishment-induced resurgence	2
Kea (Nestor notabilis) and the ephemeral reward task: Success and hurdles explored	2
Resource limitations: A taxonomy	2
Behavioral evidence that repetitive responses in a free-movement pattern Y-maze are associated with ageing-related deficit in working memory	2
Captive Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) show facial indicators of positive affect when reunited with their caregiver	2
Non-masking noise suppresses bird song	2
When a glimpse is enough: Partial mimicry of jumping spiders by insects	2
Ambient light spectrum affects larval Mexican jumping bean moth (Cydia saltitans) behavior despite light obstruction from host seed	2
The effect of interstimulus interval on sustained attention	2
More complex anti-predator behaviors develop with age in Chinese water deer fawns	2
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Behavioral economic demand modeling chronology, complexities, and considerations: Much ado about zeros	2
Modulation of dear enemy effects by male dusky warblers (Phylloscopus fuscatus) at different reproductive stages	2
Why do Cattle Egrets forage with cattle? An analysis from an anti-predation perspective	2
Repeated reversals of concurrent olfactory discriminations in rats: A search for functional equivalence	2
Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents	2
Female preference counteracts negative frequency dependent selection for a stable polymorphism in a livebearing fish	2
The role of line-of-sight in operant experiments using food reinforcers in guinea pigs	2
Prosociality and reciprocity according to parental status, communication, and personality in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria)	2
Further observations on the reinforcing value of sucrose solutions: Interaction between quantity and concentration	2
Interspecific differences in sociability, social novelty preference, anxiety- and depression-like behaviors between Brandt's voles and C57BL/6J mice	2
Social group during housing and testing modulates the effect of ethanol on zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior	2