Big behavioral data: psychology, ethology and the foundations of neuroscience [PDF]
Nature Neuroscience, 2014 Behavior is a unifying organismal process where genes, neural function, anatomy and environment converge and interrelate. Here we review the current state and discuss the future effect of accelerating advances in technology for behavioral studies ...
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Affiliative Subgroups in Preschool Classrooms: Integrating Constructs and Methods from Social Ethology and Sociometric Traditions [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent studies of school-age children and adolescents have used social network analyses to characterize selection and socialization aspects of peer groups.
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“It Felt More like a Revolution.” How Behavioral Ecology Succeeded Ethology, 1970–1990
Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2022 As soon as ethology's status diminished in the early 1970s, it was confronted with two successor disciplines, sociobiology and behavioral ecology. They were able to challenge ethology because it no longer provided markers of strong disciplinarity such as
Cora Stuhrmann
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Ethology as a physical science
Nature Physics, 2018 The study of animal behaviour, ethology, is becoming more quantitative. New theory is emerging, driven by better imaging and novel representations of animal posture dynamics that span the vast range of relevant behavioural timescales.
André E X Brown, Benjamin L De Bivort
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Shape and texture biases in dogs’ generalization of trained objects [PDF]
Scientific ReportsShape bias, the tendency to link the meaning of words to the shape of objects, is a widely investigated phenomenon, but the extent to which it is linked to vocabulary acquisition and/or to tool using is controversial.
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The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. Howard E. Evans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. xviii, 526 pp. $15.00. [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: In one sense, ethology is natural history. In a more restricted sense, it is the description and classification of behavior viewed as a necessary prerequisite to analysis. The analyses that follow become more and more physiological as the tangle
V. G. Dethier
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Not the presence but the timing of acoustic signals influence dogs’ behaviour toward an artificial agent [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSome features of communicative signals may only direct the attention of the receiver to the signaller, and others may convey specific aspects of the message.
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Theory & Psychology, 2022 Cognitive psychology considers the environment as providing information, not affecting fundamental information processes. Thus, cognitive psychology’s traditional paradigms study responses to precisely timed stimuli in controlled environments. However, new research demonstrates the environment does influence cognitive processes and offers cognitive ...
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Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Phocids
Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals, 2022 Daniel P. Costa, Elizabeth A. McHuron
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Perception of animacy leads to expectation of goal-directed behaviour in dogs [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHuman newborns preferentially attend to self-propelled objects, and three-month-olds expect them to act in a goal-directed manner. Dogs also prefer animate objects, and anticipate human actions to be goal-driven, but it is unclear whether perceiving an ...
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