Anticipation of a midsession reversal in humans
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DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2018.12.016
Abstract: In a two-stimulus visual discrimination choice task with a reversal in reward contingencies midway through each session, pigeons produce a surprising number of anticipatory errors (i.e., responding to the second-correct stimulus before the reversal) based… read more here.
Keywords: reversal; choice task; midsession reversal;
Mind the gap: How incomplete explanations influence children’s interest and learning behaviors
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2021.101421
Abstract: Children rely on others' explanations to learn scientific concepts, yet sometimes the explanations they receive are incomplete. Three studies explore how receiving incomplete or complete explanations influences children's subsequent interest and engagement in learning behaviors… read more here.
Keywords: explanation; learning; learning behaviors; choice task ... See more keywords
Do pet dogs (Canis familiaris) follow ostensive and non-ostensive human gaze to distant space and to objects?
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170349
Abstract: Dogs are renowned for being skilful at using human-given communicative cues such as pointing. Results are contradictory, however, when it comes to dogs' following human gaze, probably due to methodological discrepancies. Here we investigated whether… read more here.
Keywords: distant space; gaze; human gaze; choice task ... See more keywords
Quantifying Behavioral Sensation Seeking With the Aroma Choice Task
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DOI: 10.1177/1073191119864659
Abstract: Our goal was to develop a behavioral measure of sensation seeking (SS). The Aroma Choice Task (ACT) assesses preference for an intense, novel, varied, and risky (exciting) option versus a mild, safe (boring) option using… read more here.
Keywords: aroma choice; sensation seeking; choice; seeking aroma ... See more keywords
Demonstrative Reference and Semantic Space: A Large-Scale Demonstrative Choice Task Study
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00629
Abstract: Spatial demonstratives (words like this and that) have been thought to primarily be used for carving up space into a peripersonal and extrapersonal domain. However, when given a noun out of context and asked to… read more here.
Keywords: large scale; space; semantic space; demonstrative choice ... See more keywords
Neuroanatomical correlates of individual differences in the object choice task in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1057722
Abstract: Declarative and imperative joint attention or joint engagement are important milestones in human infant development. These have been shown to be a significant predictor of later language development and are impaired in some individuals with,… read more here.
Keywords: choice task; joint attention; task; object choice ... See more keywords