Showing papers in "Behavioral Biology in 1974"

TL;DR: A theory which holds that information is normally stored within a specialized memory rather than the system immediately responsible for the performance of behavior is advanced and the effects of hippocampal ablation are explained in terms of the elimination of such transfer.

TL;DR: There is no conclusive evidence that high ranking males have greater overall reproductive success, and an alternative hypothesis that adult males are sexually active for a relatively short stage of their lives fits existing data equally well.

TL;DR: The present results suggest that Aplysia can be used to study more complex behaviors under extensive motivational control, and are likely to apply to other gastropod molluscs with nervous systems that are advantageous for neurophysiological analysis.

TL;DR: The rat seemed incapable of utilizing olfactory cues alone for directional information, whereas the mouse utilized vocalizations and olfaction cues equally well.

TL;DR: A selective review of the literature on the effect of electrical stimulation of the brain on learning and memory processes is presented, and tentative suggestions are advanced relating these effects to processes associated with storage and retrieval of information.

TL;DR: Aplysia are normally exposed to great variations of water temperature, wave shock, food abundance, and duration of exposure to air, and the behavior in the field was very similar to that of A .

TL;DR: The results of these studies suggest morphine and electrical stimulation have similar mechanisms of action in producing analgesia when these active midbrain sites are involved and are in agreement with those studies that showed identical sites of action for electrical analgesia in the rat.

TL;DR: The data suggest that although the appetitive and consummatory phases of feeding occur sequentially, the motor expression of the two phases can be dissociated, and are not necessarily causally linked.

TL;DR: Data is presented which identify different procedures designed to produce depression, help determine the susceptibility of any given subject to such procedures, and which outline methods and modes of therapy.

TL;DR: A sex-attractant function for the hamster vaginal secretion odor is demonstrated and males were strongly attracted to the vaginal secretion of estrous as well as 1-day postestrous females.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the reticular formation may underlie short-term habituation of the acoustic startle response and that the normal pathway of this response involves information relayed to reticle formation via the inferior colliculi.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the male parent on growth and development of the pups was found to be due to his keeping them warm, and the possible significance of this for mice in the wild state is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a habituation-preference testing situation was employed in order to determine if 32 intact adult male Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) could detect individual differences in the biological odors from 31 intact male conspecifics.

TL;DR: Parental behavior was observed in Peromyscus californicus parasiticus that had been live trapped as adults and bred in the laboratory, indicating that male P. califORNicus participate in the care of their pups.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the mechanism of REM is primarily cholinergic and that the locus coeruleus may be the site of interaction between the catecholamine-REM function and the Cholinergic-REM mechanism.

TL;DR: It is discussed that this type of aggressive behavior is modulated in part by a balance between dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems.

TL;DR: The results were interpreted to indicate that the hippocampal-fornix system is implicated in the long-term storage or retrieval of the spatiotemporal relationships of stimuli in the environment.

TL;DR: Data are reported that demonstrate that the medial and orbital aspects of the prefrontal cortex of the rat can be functionally dissociated with respect to activity.

TL;DR: Bilateral removal of the olfactory bulbs produces a syndrome of profound and apparently permanent social behavioral deficits that are not seen when mice are rendered anosmic by a peripheral manipulation not affecting the integrity of the Olfactory bulb.

TL;DR: Results confirm the hypothesis according to which the consolidation phase should be more an elaborative process than a simple fixing in BALB/c mice.

TL;DR: The greater intakes of hypertonic saline in the diuretic-injected rats maintained on the sodium deficient diet were attributed to potentiation of the sodium appetite elicited by sodium loss by high endogenous mineralocorticoid levels, since maintenance on the Sodium deficient diet did not elicit sodium appetite in the absence of sodium depletion.

TL;DR: Golden hamster pups showed a marked preference for the odor of home-cage bedding over that of fresh bedding beginning at 7–8 days of age, and this preference subsequently declined.

TL;DR: Fighting by pairs of albino rats, in a situation without painful shock, was measured by frequency or duration of dominant behaviors, defensive-submissive behaviors, and mutual upright postures.

TL;DR: The results are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that both hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are involved in the assessment of the biological significance of environmental stimuli.

TL;DR: If rats drink equal quantities of two flavored solutions, but one flavored solution is consumed while thirsty and the other solution is eaten while nearly satiated, they will tend to prefer the thirst-correlated flavor when given a choice between the two solutions.

TL;DR: The results show that approximately one third of the rat's evaporative water loss, in the absence of heat stress, is saliva excreted during grooming.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the conditioned orienting response is the real conditioned response in cats and the interference between the orienting and goal responses corresponded to a competition between two goal responses.

TL;DR: The results suggest that a system involving the habenula and stria medullaris is involved in the mediation of feminine, but not masculine, sexual behavior in the rat.

TL;DR: The behavior of two bulbectomized hamsters displayed an atypical persistence of mating postoperatively, which supports the hypothesis that male hamsters can display normal sexual behavior in the absence of olfactory stimulation.

TL;DR: Contact stimulation may explain a portion of the male-acceleration effect produced by placing young female mice with neonatally androgenized adult females.