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Journal Articles (Psychology)
Items in this Collection
- 6McMillan, Neil
- 6Weimin Mou
- 5Nicoladis, E.
- 5Spetch, Marcia L.
- 5Sturdy, Christopher B.
- 4Allison H. Hahn
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Individual acoustic differences in female black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee 1 songs
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Carolina Montenegro, Prateek K. Sahu, Christopher B. Sturdy
In songbirds, song has traditionally been considered a vocalization mainly produced by males. 11 However, recent research suggests that both sexes produce song. While the function and 12 structure of male black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee song have been well-13 studied,...
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Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
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Lauren M. Guillette, Tas Vámos, Susan D. Healy, Simone L. Meddle
Female zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata will copy the novel foraging choice of males. The degree to which they do so, however, can vary considerably. Among-individual differences in social learning and their underlying neural pathways have received relatively little attention and remain poorly...
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1997-01-01
If speech-language pathologists are to identify bilingual children in need of intervention, it is essential to understand the normal variations of bilingual acquisition and how it is the same or different from monolingual development. In this paper, we present an overview of the basics of...
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Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?
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Observation of or interaction with the enduring products of behaviour, called ‘social artefacts’ (e.g. an abandoned nest) are a potential source of social information. To learn from an artefact, that artefact needs to be recognized as the product of a behaviour that can provide relevant...
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Learning from authoritarian teachers: Controlling the situation or controlling yourself can sustain motivation
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Chaffee, Kathryn E., Noels, Kimberly A., Sugita McEown, Maya
Positive psychology encompasses the study of positive outcomes, optimal functioning, and resilience in difficult circumstances. In the context of language learning, positive outcomes include academic engagement, self-determined motivation, persistence in language learning, and eventually becoming...
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2016-01-01
Christopher B. Sturdy, Erin N. Scully, Allison H. Hahn, Neil McMillan, Jenna V. Congdon, Kimberley A. Campbell
Category perception, as Herrnstein (1990) defined it, is a powerful and pervasive cognitive ability possessed by every species in which it has been adequately tested. We have studied category perception of vocal communication signals in songbirds for over 20 years. Our first studies provided us...
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Path integration, rather than being suppressed, is used to update spatial views in familiar environments with constantly available landmarks
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This project tested three hypotheses conceptualizing the interaction between path integration based on self-motion and piloting based on landmarks in a familiar environment with persistent landmarks. The first hypothesis posits that path integration functions automatically, as in environments...
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2016-02-17
McMillan, Neil, Sturdy, Christopher B., Pisklak, Jeffrey M., Spetch, Marcia L.
Animals make surprising anticipatory and perseverative errors when faced with a midsession reversal of reinforcer contingencies on a choice task with highly predictable stimulus–time relationships. In the current study, we asked whether pigeons would anticipate changes in reinforcement when the...
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2016-01-01
McMillan, N., Sturdy, C. B., Pisklak, J. M., & Spetch, M. L.
Animals make surprising anticipatory and perseverative errors when faced with a midsession reversal of reinforcer contingencies on a choice task with highly predictable stimulus-time relationships. In the current study, we asked whether pigeons could learn to anticipate changes in reinforcement...