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Gatto, Elia. "New paradigms to study numerical cognition in animals." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3426370.

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The mathematical abilities of animals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. However, it is only in the last two decades that researchers have systematically investigated this issue. Numerical abilities are widespread among mammals, birds and fish but little is known about their occurrence in other taxa. They play important functions in several ecological contexts, such as foraging, mate choice, and social interaction. The actual mechanisms underlying number sense in animals and the upper limits of these abilities are still a matter of debate. Conflicting results often e

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Keller, Matthew R. "Effects of time constraints on social spatial memory." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1707435841&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Shaw, Rachael Caroline. "The social cognition of Eurasian Jays : gaining insight into cognitive evolution in Corvids." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607951.

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Welsh, Matthew Brian. "Of mice and men : the structure and bases of murine cognitive abilities." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw463.pdf.

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Bibliography: leaves 263-278. This research investigated the existence of individual differences in cognitive abilities in mice. Arguments have been put forward regarding the likely bases of such differences.

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Cartmill, Erica A. "Gestural communication in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) : a cognitive approach /." St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/634.

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Mallavarapu, Suma. "Object permanence in orangutans, gorillas, and black-and-white ruffed lemurs." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29651.

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Thesis (Ph.D)--Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.<br>Committee Chair: Maple, Terry; Committee Member: Blanchard-Fields, Fredda; Committee Member: Hampton, Robert; Committee Member: Marr, Marcus; Committee Member: Stoinski, Tara. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

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Pålsson, Erik. "Cognitive function studied in animal models of schizophrenia /." Göteborg : Dept. of Pharmacology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/775.

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Smith, Alicia Brooke. "Essences and Transformations in Objects, Animals, and Humans." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/213.

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Research as to how humans group natural kinds, such as animals, is essential to understanding categorization processes. However, it lacks conventional application and generalization to everyday life. Humans are social beings that encounter a wide array of individuals on a daily basis. In these situations, we are required to consider various properties that make up these people. As Keller (2005) suggests, the way we categorize is shaped by our theories about the world. Therefore, when we determine the rationale behind people’s social categorization processes, we are better able to understand pe

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Ruiz, April M. "Social information gathering in lemurs /." St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/908.

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Ruiz, April M. "Social information gathering in lemurs." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/908.

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By investigating the cognitive capacities of non-human primates, we can begin to understand the cognitive capacities of the evolutionary ancestors we share with these species. While there is a great deal of research exploring the socio-cognitive abilities of simian primates, prosimians have not been sufficiently studied. Without data from these species, our knowledge about the evolution of the primate mind is limited to the common ancestor shared between simian primates only, precluding understanding of the phylogenetic origins of certain phenomena. I explored the socio-cognitive capacities of

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Krebber, André. "Raising the memory of nature : animals, nonidentity and enlightenment thought." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10590.

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Society’s current experience of nature is ambiguous. Just as nature proves severely affected by human activities and vulnerable, it also appears threatening to us. Although the changes in nature have been perceived for long as an ecological crisis, this experience and the challenges it provides have remained persistently exigent over the last four decades. As a consequence, our epistemological understanding of nature and culture as separate entities has been inherently shaken. My study is located among ecocritical attempts to negotiate these experiences. Immanent critiques of E. O. Wilson’s an

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Makepeace, Shawn. "Using Bioacoustical Methodologies to Evaluate Equine Hearing Capabilities and Cognition." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368026497.

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Muth, Felicity. "Investigating the role of cognition in nest construction in birds." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3820.

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Nest building in birds has long been assumed to be a behaviour that is not learned, despite suggestive evidence to the contrary. In this thesis I investigated the role of learning in nest building in birds. I focused primarily on the choice of nest material made by zebra finches, in particular between two or more colours of nesting material. Using this aspect of behaviour, I found that adult nest building birds changed their preference for a particular colour of nesting material depending on their own nesting and breeding experience: males that built a nest using material of their less preferr

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Smet, Anna F. "A comparative cognition perspective on the production and use of visual signals by African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11860.

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Elephants' complex societies, well-developed communication systems, evolutionary history and close working relationship with humans make them an important species for studies of cognition but research on elephant cognition is sparse. In this thesis I aim to illuminate the social cognition involved in the interpretation and production of visual signals by African elephants (Loxodonta africana). My results are intended to contribute to the cross-species literature on social cognition and help to elucidate wild elephant social behaviour. I studied captive elephants, housed at an elephant-back saf

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Branch, Jane Elizabeth Ellis. "Spatial localization by chimpanzees (p̲a̲n̲ t̲r̲o̲g̲l̲o̲d̲y̲t̲e̲s̲) after changes in an object’s location via seen and unseen rotations." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29571.

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Watson, Claire F. I. "Social contagion in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) : implications for cognition, culture and welfare." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3446.

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The social transmission of social behaviours in nonhuman primates has been understudied, experimentally, relative to instrumental, food-related behaviours. This is disproportional in relation to the comparatively high percentage of potential social traditions reported in wild primates. I report a systematic survey of the social learning literature and provide quantitative evidence of the discrepancy (Watson and Caldwell, 2009). Addressing the identified deficit in experimental work on social behaviours, I also report three empirical studies investigating the contagious nature of affective stat

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Troisi, Camille A. "An investigation of teaching behaviour in primates and birds." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12008.

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Many animals socially learn, but very few do so through teaching, where an individual modifies its behaviour in order to facilitate learning for another individual. Teaching behaviour is costly, but can confer numerous advantages, such as high fidelity transmission of information or an increase in the rate of social learning. In many putative cases of teaching, it is not known whether the pupil learns from the modified behaviour. This thesis addresses this issue in three cases of potential teaching behaviour. In particular, it investigates whether the role of food transfers in wild golden lion

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Griebling, Hannah J. "Intraspecific Variation in Cognitive Traits in a Swordtail Fish (Xiphophorus multilineatus)." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1562614167305022.

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Hoffman, Megan L. "Memory for "what", "where", and "when" information by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and adult humans." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11212007-001917/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. David A. Washburn, committee chair; Eric Vanman, Michael J. Beran, Heather Kleider, committee members. Electronic text (76 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Mar. 25, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-76).

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Tölch, Ulf. "Bat time stories decision-making in spatio-temporally predictable environments /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006. http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/archive/00005130.

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Aw, Justine M. "Decisions under uncertainty : common processes in birds, fish and humans." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d6640108-012b-4e89-b4a5-512beb49c59f.

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Decision making is a framework we impose on a vast universe of possible behaviors to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of acting in different ways. Decisions under uncertainty are of particular interest because stochasticity is a feature of environments both today and throughout evolutionary history. As a result, we might expect decision makers (DMs) to have evolved mechanisms to handle variability. In this dissertation, I examine common decision processes in several model species: European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Banded tetras (Astyanax fasciatus) and humans (Homo sapie

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Street, Sally E. "Phylogenetic comparative investigations of sexual selection and cognitive evolution in primates." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11198.

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A full understanding of any biological trait requires investigation of its evolutionary origin. Primates inspire great curiosity amongst researchers due to the remarkable diversity across species in both anatomical and behavioural traits, including sociality, sexual behaviour, life histories, neuro-anatomy, cognitive abilities and behavioural repertoires. The study of primates has involved comparative approaches since its inception, however, the necessary tools for statistically investigating the macro-evolutionary processes responsible for current diversity in biological traits have been deve

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Miller-Cahill, Megan Elizabeth. "SERIAL PATTERN EXTRAPOLATION IS SPARED DURING A MUSCARINIC CHOLINERGIC CHALLENGE IN RATS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent150755365388878.

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Roberts, Anna I. "Emerging language : cognition and gestural communication in wild and language trained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3091.

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An important element in understanding the evolutionary origin of human language is to explore homologous traits in cognition and communication between primates and humans (Burling, 1993, Hewes, 1973). One proposed modality of language evolution is that of gestural communication, defined as communicative movements of hands without using or touching objects (de Waal, 2003). While homologies between primate calls and language have been relatively well explored, we still have a limited understanding of how cognitive abilities may have shaped the characteristics of primate gestures (Corballis, 2003

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Gulledge, Jonathan Paul. "Hemispheric Differences in Numerical Cognition: A Comparative Investigation of how Primates Process Numerosity." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04122006-165711/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>David A. Washburn , committee chair; Claudio C. Cantalupo, Eric J. Vanman, Duane M. Rumbaugh, committee members. Electronic text (102 p. : col. ill.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 13, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-96).

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Cunningham, Clare L. "Cognitive flexibility in gibbons (Hylobatidae) : object manipulation and tool-use." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/116.

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Gibbons (Hylobatidae), taxonomically apes, have been largely ignored in cognitive research. This is surprising given their unique phylogenetic position, being intermediate between the monkeys and great apes, and the available diversity of extant species. They are therefore, ideally placed to study the evolution of cognitive abilities in the hominoid line; they offer the opportunity to determine how the mental capacities of primates have changed through the transition from monkey to ape. This research aimed to begin to fill the void in our knowledge regarding the cognitive abilities of this fam

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Cartmill, Erica A. "Gestural communication in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) : a cognitive approach." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/634.

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While most human language is expressed verbally, the gestures produced concurrent to speech provide additional information, help listeners interpret meaning, and provide insight into the cognitive processes of the speaker. Several theories have suggested that gesture played an important, possibly central, role in the evolution of language. Great apes have been shown to use gestures flexibly in different situations and to modify their gestures in response to changing contexts. However, it has not previously been determined whether ape gestures are defined by structural variables, carry meaning,

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Tao, Ruoting. "Understanding object-directed intentionality in Capuchin monkeys and humans." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9304.

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Understanding intentionality, i.e. coding the object directedness of agents towards objects, is a fundamental component of Theory of Mind abilities. Yet it is unclear how it is perceived and coded in different species. In this thesis, we present a series of comparative studies to explore human adults' and Capuchin monkeys' ability to infer intentional objects from actions. First we studied whether capuchin monkeys and adult humans infer a potential object from observing an object-directed action. With no direct information about the goal-object, neither species inferred the object from the act

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Žiaunienė, Greta. "Pradinių klasių mokinių, turinčių didelių ir labai didelių specialiųjų ugdymosi poreikių, pasiekimai naminių gyvulių pažinimo srityje." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140717_103432-11093.

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Bakalauro darbe siekiama ištirti pradinių klasių mokinių, turinčių didelių ir labai didelių specialiųjų ugdymosi poreikių, pasiekimus naminių gyvulių pažinimo srityje. Tyrime dalyvavo pradinių lavinamųjų klasių mokiniai, kuriems nustatytas vidutinis ir žymus intelekto sutrikimas. Interviu dalyvavo pedagogai, ugdantys mokinius, turinčius didelių ir labai didelių specialiųjų ugdymosi poreikių. Iš viso apklausti 30 mokinių ir 6 pedagogai. Buvo parengtas tyrimo instrumentas – klausimynas. Individualia anketine apklausa siekta atskleisti mokinių požiūrį į naminius gyvulius, turimas gamtamokslines

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Harrison, Rachel Anne. "Experimental studies of behavioural flexibility and cultural transmission in chimpanzees and children." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16954.

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In this thesis, I explore two subjects of importance to the study of cultural evolution and cumulative culture; behavioural flexibility in chimpanzees, and social transmission in human children. In Chapter 1, I give an overview of current literature on the cognitive requirements of cumulative culture, with a focus on behavioural flexibility as a capacity which facilitates cumulative culture. I also explore a current discussion in the field of cultural evolution; namely the debate between "standard" and cultural attraction-based approaches to the study of cultural evolution. Chapter 2 is an exp

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Davis, Sarah Jayne. "The context of behavioural flexibility in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) : implications for the evolution of cumulative culture." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16297.

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Cumulative culture is rare, if not altogether absent in non-human species. At the foundation of cumulative learning is the ability to flexibly modify, relinquish or build upon prior behaviours to make them more productive or efficient. Within the primate literature, a failure to optimise solutions in this way is often proposed to derive from low-fidelity copying of witnessed behaviours, sub-optimal social learning heuristics, or a lack of relevant socio-cognitive adaptations. However, humans can also be markedly inflexible in their behaviours, perseverating with, or becoming fixated on outdate

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Watson, Stuart Kyle. "Factors shaping social learning in chimpanzees." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12781.

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Culture is an important means by which both human and non-human animals transmit useful behaviours between individuals and generations. Amongst animals, chimpanzees live particularly varied cultural lives. However, the processes and factors that influence whether chimpanzees will be motivated to copy an observed behaviour are poorly understood. In this thesis, I explore various factors and their influence on social learning decisions in chimpanzees. In turn, the chapters examine the influence of (i) rank-bias towards copying dominant individuals, (ii) majority and contextual influences and fin

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Frank, Andrea Jean. "An examination of the temporal and spatial stimulus control in emergent symmetry in pigeons." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/157.

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Bates, Lucy. "Cognitive aspects of travel and food location by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2697.

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Finding food in tropical forests poses a potentially major problem for chimpanzees, whose ranging is thought primarily to be directed at locating suitable food resources: (1) chimpanzees are frugivorous, large bodied and live in large home ranges; (2) they lack specialised sensory or locomotor abilities, and terrestrial travel is known to be costly; but (3) fruits are randomly distributed in space and time. Evidence from studies of captive individuals suggests chimpanzees are capable of remembering the locations of out of sight resources and can compute least distance routes to these resources

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Brandão, Manuela Lombardi [UNESP]. "Social isolation in a group living fish impairs cognition." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122144.

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Brandão, Manuela Lombardi. "Social isolation in a group living fish impairs cognition /." São José do Rio Preto, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122144.

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Orientador: Eliane Gonçalves de Freitas<br>Coorientador: Victoria A. Braithwaite<br>Banca: Marisa Fernandes de Castilho<br>Banca: Thaís Billalba Carvalho<br>Resumo: Para se ajustar a mudanças ambientais, os animais podem aprender sobre tais variações e modular seu comportamento de acordo com suas necessidades. Em alguns casos, no entanto, mudanças no ambiente social ou físico podem gerar estados de medo que levam a respostas de estresse fisiológico e que podem modificar a capacidade de um indivíduo em aprender, impactando negativamente o bem-estar desse animal. O isolamento social, por exemplo

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Gomes, Telma Raquel Vieira. "Clínica de animais de companhia." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/17656.

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O presente relatório pretende descrever as atividades desenvolvidas durante o estágio curricular de seis meses no Hospital Veterinário do Restelo, referindo a casuística acompanhada e incluindo uma monografia sobre a síndrome de disfunção cognitiva canina (DCC). A área com maior representatividade foi a clínica médica, com 75,23% do total de casos acompanhados. A DCC é uma síndrome neurodegenerativa, de etiologia multifatorial, que afeta cães, sobretudo a partir dos 11 anos, estando muitas vezes associada a outras afeções, o que pode dificultar o seu diagnóstico. Os sinais clínicos seguem a si

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Visa, Bombardo Joan. "Potenciació de l’aprenentatge i la memòria amb agonistes del glutamat en models animals de dèficits cognitius." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668068.

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L’envelliment progressiu de la població pot implicar una major incidència de malalties neurodegeneratives, el que suposa un problema social important que requereix d’investigació. Les regions cerebrals especialment sensibles als efectes de l’envelliment són l’escorça prefrontal (CPF) i l’hipocamp (HPC), amb especial implicació dels seus receptors d’àcid N-metil-D-aspartat (NMDAr) i α-amino-3-hidroxi-5-metil-4-isoxazolpropionic (AMPAr). Donada la implicació d’aquests receptors glutamatèrgics en els processos cognitius, diversos estudis els han utilitzat com a diana per a tractaments destinats a

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Coulon, Marjorie. "La reconnaissance sociale et individuelle chez les bovins domestiques : étude expérimentale avec des images fixes." Paris 13, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA132037.

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Chez les animaux sociaux, les relations supposent des capacités de discrimination/reconnaissance qui peuvent concerner l’espèce, le groupe ou même un individu. La reconnaissance des congénères nécessite d’une part des invariants phénotypiques de l’espèce et une certaine variabilité entre les individus, et d’autre part les capacités cognitives sous-tendant ces processus. Dans l’étude de comportements sociaux, il est légitime de poser la question de savoir comment les individus perçoivent leurs compagnons, comment ils traitent l’information sociale et quels sont les processus cognitifs mis en je

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Soldati, Francesca. "Animal cognition meets ecosystem ecology : the impact of cognition on seed dispersal." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2015. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/23685/.

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Seed dispersal by endozoochory is important for the maintenance of plant populations and biodiversity. As a result, understanding the impact that frugivores’ activities have on seed dispersal is essential in order to better understand plant population dynamics. One factor that is known to affect an animal’s behaviour, yet has received little attention in this context, is animal cognition i.e. whether the information animals learn and remember affects where they access fruit and deposit seeds. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to address how animal learning and memory affects the seed dispe

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Ackelman, Emma. "Cognitive Judgement Bias as an Indicator for Animal Welfare." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166576.

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Animal welfare has long been a subject under debate. Since animals are unable to voice concerns about their living standards it is of interest to find other ways to secure their wellbeing. A new measurement has been introduced where animals’ own judgement can act as an indicator for their emotional state and welfare. This study summarizes key elements from previous literature and research in order to explain the connection between welfare and judgement bias. Emotions have been defined as either an observable reaction to a stimulus or a subjective conscious experience of the stimulus. The secon

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Sayers, Kenneth A. "Optimal foraging on the roof of the world a field study of Himalayan langurs /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1208831515.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 21, 2009). Advisor: Marilyn A. Norconk. Keywords: theoretical evolutionary ecology, optimal foraging theory, diet, nutrition, ranging, cognition, colobine monkeys, Semnopithecus entellus. Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-193).

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García, Aguirre Ana I. "An evaluation of cognitive deficits in a rat-model of Huntington's disease." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8827.

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The purpose of this thesis was to develop methodology by which treatments for the cognitive impairments in Huntington's disease (HD) could be tested. As such, the thesis focused mainly on evaluating rats with quinolinic acid (QA) lesions of the striatum, as this manipulation mimics some aspects of the neural damage in Huntington's disease, to try to identify cognitive deficits of HD resulting from cell loss in the striatum. In the first part (Chapters 3-5), the role of the striatum in implicit memory was investigated. Chapter 3 compared the performance of rats and humans on a reaction time tas

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Gaulejac, Fabienne de. "Effet du contexte sur la réaction comportementale à la nouveauté chez l'animal. D'un système cognitif à un autre ?" Toulouse 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU30210.

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Une etude experimentale sur la reaction a la nouveaute a ete conduite sur un materiel biologique encore non etudie de ce point de vue : le loup europeen. Les resultats obtenus lors d'experiences d'introduction et de deplacement d'objets nouveaux, sans valeur biologique, lors d'une procedure d'habituation a ces objets et d'une analyse du role des contraintes sociales sur la reaction a la nouveaute sont conformes a ceux obtenus avec les especes classiquement etudiees. Ces experiences rencontrent aussi les memes difficultes d'interpretation. Les experiences suivantes ont consiste a verifier l'imp

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Dauphine-Morer, Anne-Lise. "Explorer le concept d'intention chez les animaux pour apporter un nouvel éclairage au bien-être." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UNIP7152.

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Les sujets relatifs aux états mentaux, à la conscience ou encore aux intentions des animaux non-humains soulèvent deux difficultés majeures. D'abord l'identification de ces capacités : quelles capacités pour quelles espèces mais aussi qu'elles forment prennent-elles ? Ensuite, l'accès à ces états mentaux internes non directement mesurables : quels outils, métriques, etc. Aborder ces questions revient ainsi à traiter tant ce que recouvre le modèle Animal pour l'observateur (un individu réactif, un individu pensant, etc.) que les paradigmes méthodologiques (par exemple, un état mental peut-il vr

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Hall, Katherine McGregor. "Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) gaze following in the informed forager paradigm : analysis with cross correlations." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3029.

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I tested two pairs of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the informed forager paradigm: a subordinate saw the location of hidden bait, and then searched with a naïve dominant. This paradigm has tested what subjects know about others' states of knowledge, but my focus was to determine how subjects used different movement types and different gaze types to modify their competitive tactics. In particular, I investigated whether chimpanzees follow opponents' gaze to gain information. Learning more about how primates use visual information to predict others' behaviour can shed light on the co

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Nawroth, Christian [Verfasser], Eberhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Borell, and Birger [Akademischer Betreuer] Puppe. "Farm animal cognition : physico- and socio-cognitive capabilities of ungulate livestock ; [kumulative Dissertation] / Christian Nawroth. Betreuer: Eberhard Borell ; Birger Puppe." Halle, Saale : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1067842594/34.

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Carreras, Ubach Ricard. "The cognitive bias test as a measure of emotional state in pigs." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/392711.

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L'avaluació de les emocions és un dels principals objectius de la ciència del benestar animal. El test del biaix cognitiu (BC) s'ha proposat com una mesura per avaluar la valència (positiu vs. negatiu) i la intensitat de les emocions en animals i es basa en la premissa que els subjectes amb un estat emocional negatiu jutjaran un estímul ambigu més negativament que els subjectes amb un estat emocional positiu. L'objectiu del primer estudi va ser avaluar l'aplicabilitat i la consistència del test del BC (TBC) en porcs. Els resultats van mostrar que els porcs eren capaços d'aprendre la tasca de d

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White, Laura Michelle. "An assessment of cognitive level of instruction presented in animal science courses and the impact on development of cognition in undergraduates." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1246566167/.

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Destrez, Alexandra. "Accumulation d'émotions et modifications de la sensibilité émotionnelle et des fonctions cognitives chez les ovins." Phd thesis, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00798018.

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La question du bien-être de l'animal ne se pose que si on lui reconnaît le statut d'être sensible, capable de ressentir des émotions. Les émotions dépendent de processus cognitifs qu'entreprend l'animal pour évaluer son environnement. Pour comprendre le passage des émotions à un état de bien-être, nous avons étudié si ces processus cognitifs peuvent être biaisés par les émotions, lesquelles en retour seraient modulées durablement. Un modèle de stress chronique a été développé sur ovins : des agnelles sont exposées de manière répétée à des évènements aversifs, imprévisibles et incontrôlables. L

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