Ethology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood.

30 May 2009 Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued ... Read more...

A melding of the minds: when primatology meets personality and social psychology.

26 Apr 2009 Social and personality psychology and behavioral primatology both enjoy long histories of research aimed at uncovering the proximate and ultimate determinants of primate-human and nonhuman-social behavior. Although they share research themes, ... Read more...

Selective increase in representations of sounds repeated at an ethological rate.

20 Apr 2009 Exposure to sounds during early development causes enlarged cortical representations of those sounds, leading to the commonly held view that the size of stimulus representations increases with stimulus exposure. However, representing stimuli based ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Ethology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The yellow cow. 30 Jul 2009
• The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood. 30 May 2009
• [Upgrading course for animal control agents: a new perspective on the zoonosis control services in the State of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil] 30 May 2009
• A melding of the minds: when primatology meets personality and social psychology. 26 Apr 2009
• Selective increase in representations of sounds repeated at an ethological rate. 20 Apr 2009
• Darwin's legacy to comparative psychology and ethology. 30 Jan 2009
• Research and teaching of dairy cattle well being: finding synergy between ethology and epidemiology. 30 Dec 2008
• Comparative social cognition. 30 Dec 2008
• The scientific contributions of Paul D. MacLean (1913-2007). 30 Dec 2008
• Neuroethology of reward and decision making. 10 Dec 2008
• Delineation of violence from functional aggression in mice: an ethological approach. 21 Oct 2008
• Stimulus design for auditory neuroethology using state space modeling and the extended Kalman smoother. 15 Oct 2008
• Dolphin natures, human virtues: MacIntyre and ethical naturalism. 13 Aug 2008
• The neuroethology of song cessation in response to gleaning bat calls in two species of katydids, Neoconocephalus ensiger and Amblycorypha oblongifolia. 30 Jul 2008
• On-board telemetry of emitted sounds from free-flying bats: compensation for velocity and distance stabilizes echo frequency and amplitude. 27 Jul 2008
• Robert A. Hinde. 20 Jul 2008
• A statistical method for quantifying songbird phonology and syntax. 9 Jul 2008
• Understanding behavior: animal behavior and animal welfare. 29 Jun 2008
• Cognitive Ethology for humans: inconvenient truth or attentional deficit? 16 Apr 2008
• Rats' knowledge of incorrect responses in a matching-to-sample task. 30 Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Ethology'

Definition: The discipline pertaining to the study of animal behavior.

Descriptor UI: D005010

Alternative terms: Ethology;

Related Mesh Headings: Behavior, Animal;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.208;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: "the study of animal behavior"; do not confuse with ETHNOLOGY; SPEC: SPEC qualif; DF: ETHOL