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ZENK expression following conspecific and heterospecific playback in the zebra finch auditory forebrain
Download2017-01-01
Scully, Erin N., Campbell, Kimberly A., Congdon, Jenna V, Sturdy, Christopher B., Hahn, Allison H., McMillan, Neil
Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) are sexually dimorphic songbirds, not only in appearance but also in vocal production: while males produce both calls and songs, females only produce calls. This dimorphism provides a means to contrast the auditory perception of vocalizations produced by...
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Why Don’t “Real Men” Learn Languages? Masculinity Threat and Gender Ideology Suppress Men’s Language Learning Motivation
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Chaffee, K. E., Lou, N. M., Noels, K. A., Katz, J. W.
Large gender disparities in participation still exist across many university subjects and career fields, but few studies have examined factors that account for gender gaps in female-dominated disciplines. We examine one possible cause: threatened masculinity among men who hold traditional gender...
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When is a preposition a linking element?ilingual children's acquisition of French compound nouns
Download2001-01-01
French is traditionally considered a non-compounding language because Speakers prefer to use lexical forms such äs NPN instead of N-N compounds. However, the preposition in these French NPNs shares similarities with meaningless linking elements in compounds in other languages. It is therefore...
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When is a Choice not a Choice? Pigeons Fail to Inhibit Incorrect Responses on a Go/No-Go Midsession Reversal Task
When is a Choice not a Choice? Pigeons Fail to Inhibit Incorrect Responses on a Go/No-Go Midsession Reversal Task
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Neil McMillan, Christopher B. Sturdy & Marcia L. Spetch
In a two-stimulus visual discrimination choice task with a reversal in reward contingencies midway through each session, pigeons produce a surprising number of both anticipatory errors (i.e., responding to the second-correct stimulus before the reversal) and perseverative errors (i.e., responding...
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Unidirectional Influence of Vision on Locomotion in Multimodal Spatial Representations Acquired from Navigation
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Visual and idiothetic information are coupled in forming multimodal spatial representations during navigation (Tcheang, Bülthoff, & Burgess, 2011). We investigated whether idiothetic representations activate visual representations but not vice versa (unidirectional coupling) or whether these two...
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The effects of cue placement on the relative dominance of boundaries and landmark arrays in goal localization
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Two types of visual features are identified as reference points used by individuals to encode locations: surface-based boundaries and discrete-object-based landmarks. Previous research show that learning locations relative to a boundary can overshadow learning relative to a landmark, but not vice...
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The effects of anthropogenic noise on feeding behaviour in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)
The effects of anthropogenic noise on feeding behaviour in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)
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Campbell, K. A., Proppe, D. S., Congdon, J. V., Scully, E. N., Mischler, S. K., & Sturdy, C. B.
Anthropogenic noise has been shown to impact animal behaviour. Most studies investigating anthropogenic noise, and the detrimental effect it has on behaviour, have been conducted in the field, where a myriad of covariates can make interpretation challenging. In this experiment, we studied the...