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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...
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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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Pitch chroma information is processed in addition to pitch height information with more than two pitch range categories
Download2022-05-12
Bernhard Wagner, Christopher B. Sturdy, Ronald G. Weisman, Marisa Hoeschele
Octave equivalence describes the perception that notes separated by a doubling in frequency sound similar. While the octave is used cross-culturally as a basis of pitch perception, experimental demonstration of the phenomenon has proved to be difficult. In past work, members of our group...
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2010-01-01
We compared French speaking and South Asian (SA) immigrant families having preschool children in an English speaking region in Canada, with regard to the parents’ attitudes towards minority language (ML) maintenance, ML use at home, and exposure of children to ML media. Parents in both groups had...
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Seasonal variability in habitat structure may have shaped acoustic signals and repertoires in the black-capped and boreal chickadees
Download2017-01-01
Many songbird species have evolved multiple vocalizations, or repertoires, that function to communicate various biological signals. More diverse repertoires may have evolved in response to the effects of seasonal variation in habitat structure on signal transmission. Such changes in habitat...
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Selective Resetting Position and Heading Estimations While Driving in a Large-Scale Immersive Virtual Environment
Download2018-10-27
Two experiments investigated how self-motion cues and landmarks interact in determining a human’s position and heading estimations while driving in a large-scale virtual environment by controlling a gaming wheel and pedals. In an immersive virtual city, participants learned the locations of five...
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Self‑determined motivation for language learning: The role of need for cognition and language learning strategies
Download2004-01-01
McIntosh, Cameron, Noels, Kimberly A.
Over the last decade, there has been a notable revival of scholarly interest in second language (L2) motivation(see Dörnyei 1998; Oxford 1996a). Since a number of critical reviews of the conceptual and empirical status of L2 motivation theory appeared in the early to mid-1990s (e.g., Crookes and...
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2009-01-01
Nicoladis, E. , Hurd, P.L., Moroschan, G.
Evolutionary psychologists have argued that the emergence of language was associated with reducing direct physical aggression and easing social functioning in small groups. If this is so, then males should use verbal or indirect aggression more frequently than females since they engage in more...
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2019-01-01
Sturdy, Christopher B., Congdon, Jenna, V.
Suzuki (Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, 115, 1541-1545, 2018) conducted elegant field experiments examining referential communication in Japanese tits. Bond (Learning & Behavior, in press, 2019) explains some key considerations and future experimentation that should be conducted...