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Age-dependent changes in behavioural plasticity: insights from Bayesian models of development
Judy A. Stamps,V. V. Krishnan +1 more
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The results imply that patterns of age-dependent plasticity during the early juvenile period might predictably vary among genotypes that express different levels of behaviour at birth or hatching, as a function of the cues with which those genotypes were reared and tested.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Developmental plasticity & Phenotypic plasticity.read more
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Modeling the Evolution of Sensitive Periods
TL;DR: The central tenets, insights, and predictions of these models, in relation to empirical work on humans and other animals, are discussed and which future models are needed to improve the bridge between theory and data, advancing their synergy.
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A case for environmental statistics of early-life effects
TL;DR: This paper summarizes evolutionary models of early-life effects, and discusses empirical data on environmental statistics from a range of disciplines, highlighting cases where data onEnvironmental statistics have been used to test competing explanations ofEarly- life effects.
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Temporal autocorrelation: a neglected factor in the study of behavioral repeatability and plasticity
David J. Mitchell,David J. Mitchell,Antoine M. Dujon,Christa Beckmann,Christa Beckmann,Péter Biró +5 more
TL;DR: The objective of this study was to establish an experimental procedure and show direct AFM measurements that unequivocally can be assigned to a single agent as the best predictor of AFM in mice.
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The adaptive significance of age-dependent changes in the tendency of individuals to explore
TL;DR: This model proposes that novel objects encountered late in life will be perceived as being relatively rare, so the value of information from investigating their properties will be estimated to be low, and develops an exploration–exploitation (‘bandit’) model, in which agents must decide whether to explore or ignore a novel object that it has just encountered.
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Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups.
TL;DR: In this paper, a task-based behavioral syndrome that results from the correlation between antecedent behavioral tendencies and task participation is defined as a task syndrome, and a framework that integrates concepts from a long history of task allocation research in eusocial organisms with recent findings from animal personality research to elucidate how task syndromes and resulting task allocation might manifest in animal groups.
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Critical period effects in second language learning: the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language.
TL;DR: The results support the conclusion that a critical period for language acquisition extends its effects to second language acquisition.
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The ecological detective : confronting models with data
Ray Hilborn,Marc Mangel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present alternative views of the scientific method and of modeling, and present a scenario and tools of the ecological detective for finding the best fit in a set of working hypotheses.
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The scent of death: Chemosensory assessment of predation risk by prey animals
Lee B. Kats,Lawrence M. Dill +1 more
TL;DR: This paper provides an exhaustive review of the literature on the responses of prey to predator chemosensory cues, primarily in tabular form, and highlights the most important studies on predator activity level and diet.
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Sensitive Periods in the Development of the Brain and Behavior
TL;DR: A hypothesis is proposed that experience during a sensitive period modifies the architecture of a circuit in fundamental ways, causing certain patterns of connectivity to become highly stable and, therefore, energetically preferred.
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Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology
TL;DR: A quantitative framework, based on statistical decision theory, for analysing animal information use in evolutionary ecology is proposed, to promote an integrative approach to studying information use by animals, which is itself integral to adaptive animal behaviour and organismal biology.