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Lopes, Andressa Rubim; Leandro, Luana Paganotto; Mariano, Maria Vitória Takemura; Posser, Thais; Franco, Jeferson – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Ethanol (EtOH) is among the most consumed drugs in the world. The behavior of humans after ingestion of this drug is characteristic: At low doses it may be excitatory and at higher doses, it may induce depressant/sedative effects. Similar effects are observed in the zebrafish experimental model ("Danio rerio"), which has about 70%…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Animals, Biochemistry, Science Laboratories
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Alba López-Moraga; Laura Luyten; Tom Beckers – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Pervasive avoidance is one of the central symptoms of all anxiety-related disorders. In treatment, avoidance behaviors are typically discouraged because they are assumed to maintain anxiety. Yet, it is not clear if engaging in avoidance is always detrimental. In this study, we used a platform-mediated avoidance task to investigate the influence of…
Descriptors: Fear of Success, Animal Behavior, Animals, Males
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Sierra Eisen; Jessica Taggart; Angeline S. Lillard – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Children's storybooks often contain fantasy elements, from dragons and wizards to anthropomorphic animals that wear clothes, talk, and behave like humans. These elements can impact children's learning from storybooks both positively and negatively, perhaps due in part to their ability to capture children's interest and attention. Prior research…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Young Children, Preferences, Animals
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Katja Liebal; Manuela Ersson-Lembeck; Federica Amici; Martin Schultze; Manfred Holodynski – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
The component model of human parenting has been extensively used to study parents' interactions with their offspring and to examine variation across cultural contexts. The current study applies this model to nonhuman primates to investigate which forms of parenting humans share with other primates and how these interactions change over infants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Skills, Child Rearing
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James William Yeates – Research Ethics, 2024
Animal behaviour and welfare research are part of a wider endeavour to optimize the health and wellbeing of humans, animals and ecosystems. As such, it is part of the One Health research agenda. This article applies ethical principles described by the One Health High Level Expert Panel to animal behaviour and welfare research. These principles…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Animals, Human Body, Ecology
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Fisher, Matthew R. – American Biology Teacher, 2022
Storytelling can stimulate learning by delivering scientific content within a narrative that increases comprehension and engagement. In this article I describe the coevolutionary arms race between toxic newts and predatory garter snakes. This engaging story centers on the use of a deadly neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX) as an antipredator…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Genetics, Evolution
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Fry, Benjamin R.; Pence, Nathan T.; McLocklin, Andrew; Johnson, Alexander W. – Learning & Memory, 2021
The dopamine system has been implicated in decision-making particularly when associated with effortful behavior. We examined acute optogenetic stimulation of dopamine cells in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) as mice engaged in an effort-based decision-making task. Tyrosine hydroxylase-Cre mice were injected with Cre-dependent ChR2 or eYFP control…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Stimulation
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Katherine M. Douglass – Religious Education, 2024
Scripture encourages parents to pass on faith to children, and a multitude of studies show that the biggest predictor of the faith of kids is the faith of their parents. However, raising kids in faith is more complicated and nuanced than simple "parent to child" religious transmission. In this paper, animal family models are used to…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Christianity, Self Concept, Identification (Psychology)
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DeCoteau, William E.; Fox, Adam E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Recently it has been proposed that impairments related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may reflect a more fundamental disruption in time perception. Here, we examined whether in utero exposure to valproic acid (VPA) can generate specific behavioral deficits related to ASD and time perception. Pups from control and VPA groups were tested using…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Time Perspective, Animals
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Brack, Virgil, Jr.; Boyles, Justin G.; Cable, Ted T. – American Biology Teacher, 2022
As researchers, teachers, and practitioners we often encounter young professionals and lay adults who do not understand basics of mammalian body temperature regulation. Often their single solid piece of knowledge is that some vertebrates (mammals and birds) are warm-blooded and some (fish, amphibians, and reptile) are cold-blooded, which is…
Descriptors: Animals, Biology, Science Instruction, Misconceptions
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Zhong, Zheng; Chen, Weidong; Zhang, Yue; Yang, Jing; Dai, Zhicheng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Animal vocal behaviour represents a certain meaning, which is the explicit expression of animal emotions, needs and communication. Different from human language, animal vocal behaviour is very abstract, and the learning material of animal vocal behaviour is also more difficult to obtain. It is hard for college students to recognize vocal…
Descriptors: Animals, Computer Simulation, Animal Behavior, Zoology
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Martin, Kiley; Musaus, Madeline; Navabpour, Shaghayegh; Gustin, Aspen; Ray, W. Keith; Helm, Richard F.; Jarome, Timothy J. – Learning & Memory, 2021
Strong evidence supports a role for protein degradation in fear memory formation. However, these data have been largely done in only male animals. Here, we found that following contextual fear conditioning, females, but not males, had increased levels of proteasome activity and K48 polyubiquitin protein targeting in the dorsal hippocampus, the…
Descriptors: Fear, Memory, Gender Differences, Animals
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Nieto, Javier; Mason, Tere A.; Bernal-Gamboa, Rodolfo; Uengoer, Metin – Learning & Memory, 2020
In two instrumental conditioning experiments with rats, we examined the impacts of acquisition and extinction cues on ABC renewal of instrumental behavior. Animals were reinforced with food for lever pressing in one context, followed by extinction of the response in a second one. Presentations of a brief tone accompanied extinction in Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Cues, Conditioning, Animals, Animal Behavior
Sierra Eisen; Jessica Taggart; Angeline S. Lillard – Grantee Submission, 2022
Children's storybooks often contain fantasy elements, from dragons and wizards to anthropomorphic animals that wear clothes, talk, and behave like humans. These elements can impact children's learning from storybooks both positively and negatively, perhaps due in part to their ability to capture children's interest and attention. Prior research…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Young Children, Preferences, Animals
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Sneddon, Elizabeth A.; Riddle, Collin A.; Schuh, Kristen M.; Quinn, Jennifer J.; Radke, Anna K. – Learning & Memory, 2021
Early life stress (ELS) experiences can cause changes in cognitive and affective functioning. This study examined the persistent effects of a single traumatic event in infancy on several adult behavioral outcomes in male and female C57BL/6J mice. Mice received 15 footshocks in infancy and were tested for stress-enhanced fear learning, extinction…
Descriptors: Fear, Trauma, Animals, Stress Variables
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