Rapid technical advances in the field of computer animation (CA) and virtual reality (VR)
have opened new avenues in animal behavior research. Animated stimuli are powerful tools …

Bird song and human speech are learned early in life and for both cases engagement with
live social tutors generally leads to better learning outcomes than passive audio-only …

Simple Summary Animals' judgement of stimuli's negativity or positivity cannot always be
assumed. To assess the valence and intensity of video stimuli (dogs as negative vs …

Research studies to date have revealed conflicting results with respect to the processing of
nonverbal cues from social interactions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Therefore, the …

Video playback provides a promising method to study social interactions, and the number of
video playback experiments has been growing in recent years. Using videos has …

Some multimodal signals—that is, occurring in more than one sensory modality—appear to
carry additional information which is not present when component signals are presented …

A closed-loop teleprompter system was used to isolate and manipulate social interactivity in
the natural courtship interactions of pigeons Columbia livia. In Experiment 1, a live face-to …

Video playback is a widely used technique for presentation of visual stimuli in animal
behavior research. In the analysis of behavioral responses to social cues, presentation of …

Abstract Theory of mind refers to the ability to attribute mental states to others and to predict
their behaviour based on inferences about their mental states, for example their perception …

Explaining the origin and maintenance of aposematism has remained a challenge for
evolutionary biologists because conspicuous warning signals are predicted to have a high …