Designing mate choice experiments

LR Dougherty - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The important role that mate choice plays in the lives of animals is matched by the large and
active research field dedicated to studying it. Researchers work on a wide range of species …

Everything is subjective under water surface, too: Visual illusions in fish

C Agrillo, M Santacà, A Pecunioso… - Animal cognition, 2020 - Springer
The study of visual illusions has captured the attention of comparative psychologists since
the last century, given the unquestionable advantage of investigating complex perceptual …

Individual differences and knockout in zebrafish reveal similar cognitive effects of BDNF between teleosts and mammals

T Lucon-Xiccato, G Montalbano… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The remarkable similarities in cognitive performance between teleosts and mammals
suggest that the underlying cognitive mechanisms might also be similar in these two groups …

Cognitive Phenotypic Plasticity: Environmental Enrichment Affects Learning but Not Executive Functions in a Teleost Fish, Poecilia reticulata

G Montalbano, C Bertolucci, T Lucon-Xiccato - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Environmental enrichment is extremely important for an individual's neural,
cognitive and behavioral development. Emerging animal models, such as teleost fish, may …

The challenge of illusory perception of animals: the impact of methodological variability in cross-species investigation

M Santacà, C Agrillo, ME Miletto Petrazzini - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research in neurobiology and ethology has given us a glimpse into the
different perceptual worlds of animals. More recently, visual illusions have been used in …

Perception of the Müller–Lyer illusion in guppies

M Santacà, C Agrillo - Current Zoology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The Müller–Lyer illusion is a well-known distortion illusion that occurs when the spatial
arrangement of inducers (ie, inwards-or outwards-pointing arrowheads) influences a line's …

Visual discrimination of size and perception of the Delboeuf illusion in the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus): A developmental disjunction?

O Bánszegi, P Szenczi, A Urrutia… - Journal of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
To date, no studies have examined the ontogeny of susceptibility to visual illusions in
nonhuman mammals. Our previous study on the perception of the Delboeuf illusion by adult …

Automated operant conditioning devices for fish. Do they work?

E Gatto, M Santacà, I Verza, M Dadda, A Bisazza - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Automated training devices are commonly used for investigating learning,
memory, and other cognitive functions in warm-blood vertebrates, whereas manual training …

Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are deceived by visual illusions during obstacle negotiation

M Santacà, A Bisazza, C Agrillo - Biology Letters, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animals travelling in their natural environment repeatedly encounter obstacles that they can
either detour or go through. Gap negotiation requires an accurate estimation of the …

Exploring the Müller-Lyer illusion in a nonavian reptile (Pogona vitticeps).

M Santacà, ME Miletto Petrazzini, C Agrillo… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual illusions have been widely used to compare visual perception among birds and
mammals to assess whether animals interpret and alter visual inputs like humans, or if they …