174 papers
This study utilizes computer-controlled tasks and pose-tracking to reveal that while dogs are more likely to wag their tails during positive anticipation, tail kinematics in negative contexts reflect arousal rather than valence, suggesting that tail wagging may be primarily a social signal rather than a universal indicator of emotional state.
This study demonstrates that in the mouse dorsal dentate gyrus, the acquisition and extinction of cocaine-context memories engage fundamentally distinct, non-overlapping epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms, providing a molecular basis for why extinction suppresses rather than erases drug memories.
This study introduces the PERCS framework to deconstruct behavioral persistence into five dissociable dimensions, demonstrating through mouse operant conditioning that unrewarded effort, rather than reward delivery, drives persistent behavior and that distinct task schedules differentially shape these dimensions to reveal stable phenotypic profiles.
This study demonstrates that genetically ablating the Tan enzyme in *Anopheles* mosquitoes impairs their visual processing, leading to reduced light-dependent attraction and altered behaviors in both males and females, thereby highlighting the critical role of vision in host-seeking and mating while offering new avenues for vector control strategies.
This study demonstrates that learning from momentary individual experiences, rather than just genetics or past environmental interactions, is a fundamental driver that generates and amplifies behavioral individuality even among genetically identical individuals.
This study demonstrates that short-term bacterial infections in captive vampire bats temporarily reduce social activity and allogrooming, particularly hindering the formation of new relationships, though these effects diminish as the bats recover and become more familiar with one another.
A 12-year study of sociable weavers reveals that infanticide is not driven by direct reproductive benefits, but rather appears motivated by indirect fitness gains through inter-group competition, as evidenced by the young, unrelated, and non-breeding status of most aggressors.
This study introduces a single-episode active avoidance paradigm to demonstrate that oxytocin-modulated translational control in the medial prefrontal cortex is essential for stabilizing threat-safety discrimination, as its disruption by excessive threat or Tsc2 haploinsufficiency leads to pathological avoidance generalization in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.
This study demonstrates that in a rat gambling task, audiovisual cues drive risky decision-making not merely by increasing arousal or amplifying outcome differences, but specifically by being predictably paired with winning outcomes, which reduces the negative impact of losses on future choices.
This paper demonstrates that the precision of the human number sense is endogenously determined and sublinearly scales with the width of the prior distribution, varying across different tasks in a manner consistent with an optimal trade-off between expected reward and neural resource costs.
This study demonstrates that combining computer vision-based sperm selection with automated behavioral analysis to predict ovulation enables successful, hormone-free in vitro fertilization in organic Senegalese sole aquaculture.
This paper compares two distinct dynamical models of *C. elegans* behavioral switching to demonstrate how fundamentally different mechanisms can produce similar noisy phenomena, while clarifying their deterministic differences and proposing extensions to incorporate state dwell times for a broader theoretical understanding of adaptive systems.
This study validates the Agora maze as a robust and reproducible semi-automated tool for assessing social novelty recognition in mice, demonstrating that while wild-type strains generally prefer a novel stranger among five partners, 5xFAD Alzheimer's model mice aged 6–8 months exhibit no social deficits in this complex paradigm.
This study analyzes extensive orca acoustic recordings to reveal previously unreported, F0-independent formant patterns and consonant-vowel-like structures resulting from air sac resonances, suggesting a convergent evolution of complex phonological features between orcas, sperm whales, and humans.
This study demonstrates that while voluntary wheel running provides pain relief for mice with unilateral osteoarthritis, it simultaneously causes a sex-dependent decline in activity levels and transiently worsens gait impairments, highlighting a critical trade-off between analgesic benefits and functional outcomes in exercise-based therapeutic strategies.
This systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of 20 rodent studies reveals that music exposure significantly reduces average anxiety- and depression-like behaviors by approximately 18%, while its effects on inter-individual behavioral variability depend on the specific assay type and music genre rather than showing a uniform change.
This study demonstrates that female common vampire bats preferentially direct social grooming toward hard-to-reach body parts of their associates, providing evidence that this behavior functions as a low-cost form of helping rather than solely as a social signal.
This systematic review of 47 studies spanning two decades synthesizes current knowledge on corvid cognitive development across social and physical domains, highlighting both parallels with primates and significant research gaps regarding sample sizes, longitudinal data, and under-explored abilities like executive function and Theory of Mind.
This study demonstrates that distinct patterns of maternal preconception calorie restriction in rats differentially program adult offspring, inducing a prosocial, sexually motivated phenotype in males and an enhanced active coping style in females, alongside specific alterations in hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis function.
This study demonstrates that vessel noise in Saint Andrew Bay, Florida, significantly disrupts Red Drum spawning choruses by reducing their sound production levels and prevalence, particularly during peak spawning seasons when vessel traffic is frequent.