Behavioural Flexibility
Social inhibition and behavioural flexibility when the context changes : a comparison across six primate species
... Behavioural flexibility also varied across species, although orangutans and capuchin monkeys were consist- ent in being the best and the worse performing species, respectively, like in the distribution of ...
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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) display limited behavioural flexibility when faced with a changing foraging task requiring tool use
... showed behavioural flexibility (altered their behaviour), the flexibility was limited in comparison to several previous studies, thus concurring with some other previous studies of chimpanzees ...
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Investigating effects of behavioural flexibility and neuroplasticity on acclimation success of outcrossed Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): applications in aquaculture
... 2007). Behavioural flexibility is one example of within-individual phenotypic plasticity that allows an organism to cope with environmental ...change. Flexibility is adaptive to variable environments ...
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Morphology as a key to behavioural flexibility: body shape and swimming variability in the dimorphic crucian carp
... Swimming trajectories of length-matched deep-bodied and shallow-bodied crucian carp were quantified in the laboratory using motion analysis software and compared in terms of swimming velocity, turning behaviour and ...
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Assessing behavioural flexibility in children with autism spectrum disorder using play based procedures
... Insistence on sameness is characteristic of persons with autism spectrum disorders, but there has been little research related to its functional properties. This chapter outlines a functional analysis study of an 11-year ...
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The context of behavioural flexibility in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) : implications for the evolution of cumulative culture
... of behavioural conservatism with emerging behavioural flexibility: with time, new solutions may be converged upon due to a combination of exposure to alternative solutions as well as the weakening of ...
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Assessment of mGluR5 KO mice under conditions of low stress using a rodent touchscreen apparatus reveals impaired behavioural flexibility driven by perseverative responses
... on behavioural flexibility from its effects on global affective state under high stress condi- ...evaluate behavioural flexibility in the mGluR5 KO mouse model under low stress conditions ...
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Attention regulation and behavioural flexibility in rats with relevance to schizophrenia
... As described in the neurochemistry section, the positive symptoms of the disorder are commonly tractable to treatment with D2R antagonists, while the cognitive symptoms are resistant to dopaminergic treatment (Conn et ...
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Behavioural Flexibility in Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)
... generalist behavioural foraging strategies and behavioural flexibility occur ...and behavioural flexibility, but inconsistencies in research findings on the topic demonstrate the ...
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Subproblem learning and reversal of a multidimensional visual cue in a lizard : evidence for behavioural flexibility?
... Simple & compound discrimination and 14.08 36.80 reversal Triangle Simple discrimination and reversal 22.01 21.30 Circle Intra-dimensional acquisition and reversal 13.85 30.47 Square Int[r] ...
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Changes of gene expression but not cytosine methylation are associated with male parental care reflecting behavioural state, social context and individual flexibility
... individual flexibility on transcriptional architecture of a transient social ...manipulating behavioural state (directly caring versus non-caring), social context (with or without a female mate) and, to a ...
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Studying emotion in invertebrates: what has been done, what can be measured and what they can provide
... The behavioural responses to analgesics, anaesthetics and opioids, and physiological responses to noxious stimuli themselves, may indicate modulation of nociception via higher brain centres (Elwood, 2011) but many ...
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Apes in the Anthropocene : flexibility and survival
... Keywords: Great apes; anthropogenic disturbance; behavioural flexibility; ape cognition;.. hominin coexistence; human-wildlife interaction.[r] ...
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Evaluation and characterisation of two zebrafish models of schizophrenia
... exposed to 30 µM PCP displayed diminished habituation as well as the lowest group response rate during the tap elicited startle test and subsequently displayed impairments in behavioural flexibility as ...
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White Matter Inflammation And Executive Dysfunction: Implications For Alzheimer Disease And Vascular Cognitive Impairment
... Several behavioural testing design parameters were crucial to characterizing the TgAPP21 rat, although they are not standard in rodent ...that behavioural flexibility can have on memory testing in ...
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On the flexibility of complex systems
... Much of the complexity of biological and social systems is rooted in their ability to function in a large variety of conditions. At the same time, complex systems must sat- isfy real constraints. For example, the ...
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Strategic Flexibility of Enterprises
... that flexibility is often used as a synonym for ...while flexibility pertains to tactical aspects of the ...that flexibility, productivity and quality are often used as basic measures of management ...
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Flexibility of ‘Clay Mats’
... EI PA = 101 . 69 BHN (4) EI PB = 31 . 201 BHN (5) The modified Brinell hardness test suggested in this study is more rapid and easily performed thus more practically applicable. From laboratory testing, a strong EI-BHN ...
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Investigation on Darrieus type straight blade vertical axis wind turbine with flexible blade
... the flexibility of the oscillating foil which could enhance the energy absorb efficiency of ...spanwise flexibility. A prescribed flexibility motion was used in their study and an up to 30% ...
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Analysis of IT infrastructure flexibility impacts on IT-Business strategic alignment
... infrastructure flexibility on IT-business strategic ...infrastructure flexibility (connectivity, modularity, compatibility, and IT personnel flexibility) are applied as exogenous (independent) latent ...
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