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  Behavioral imprinting
The biologist Konrad Lorenz studied imprinting and was followed by a gaggle of geese who had imprinted on him (more specifically, on his wading boots).
For example, according to this theory, imprinting on shoes or boots (as with Lorenz' geese) would be the cause of shoe fetishism.
This observation is consistent with the theory that reverse imprinting evolved to suppress inbreeding.
ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Behavioural_imprinting.html   (231 words)

  
 Outline of the Theory of Attachment.
Behavioural systems are assisted by feedback mechanisms allowing the individual to correct the ongoing behaviour which may show certain degrees of discrepancy with the behaviour which is necessary to attain the desired goal.
Thus attachment behaviour is held to be a kind of social behaviour tantamount to that of mating or parental behaviour and is deemed to have a function specific to itself.
In birds, for instance, filial imprinting occurs several hours after hatching and from that moment onwards the chick forms an attachment relationship to its mother: it follows her everywhere, resorts to her for help ans as haven of security in case of danger.
attachment.edu.ar /outline.html   (8168 words)

  
 The Babraham Institute - Laboratories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The behavioural function of imprinted genes, where expression in the offspring is dependent on whether the allele is from the male or female germline, is a further area of research.
Keith Kendrick is a systems and behavioural neuroscientist and his group is using behavioural, electrophysiological, in vivo neurochemical and molecular approaches to study the neural substrates, neural encoding strategies and transmitter and receptor signalling pathways (particularly glutamate receptors and nitric oxide) involved in olfactory and visual recognition memory.
Lawrence Wilkinson is a behavioural neuroscientist and his group is using a combination of behavioural, in vivo neurochemical and molecular genetics approaches in mice to studying the neural substrates and genes involved in cognitive and attentional functioning and their age or pathology-related decline.
www.babraham.ac.uk /research/neurobiology/cognative.htm   (467 words)

  
 16behave
Imprinting is distinguished from other types of learning by its irreversibility and the presence of a critical period during which imprinting can occur.
Behaviour that maximises individual reproductive success will be favoured by selection; regardless of how much damage such behaviour does to another individual, local population, or species.
The argument in favour of the "nature or genetic behaviour" position is: the occurrence of incest taboos in many cultures is evidence for an innate component and taboos are simply proximate mechanisms that reinforce a behaviour that ultimately evolved because of its effect on fitness.
io.uwinnipeg.ca /~simmons/16cm05/1116/16behave.htm   (5435 words)

  
 An Outline of Evolutionary Biology
Behavioural systems are activated, regulated and deactivated according to varying circumstances; they can be understood as complete motivational systems, only deprived of the teleology implied in terms as motivation.
Imprinting involves a narrowing of preexisting preferences, therefore doing away with indiscrimination and sharply discriminating among individuals (filial imprinting), habitat preferences, feeding preferences and sexual choice (sexual imprinting) and readily becoming attached to them.
It is of the utmost importance to realize that imprinting researchers have come to the conclusion that filial imprinting is necessary for INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION OF PARENTS and is a secondary consequence of the selective pressures on parents to discriminate between their own and other young (Bateson, 1979).
attachment.edu.ar /devbiol.html   (7091 words)

  
 Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Behavioural development is the life-long process of growth and change from conception to death.
The notion of a genetic blueprint for behaviour is misleading, as is the language of a gene 'for' a behaviour pattern.
The processes that give rise sensitive periods are illustrated by behavioural imprinting - the learning process by which a young animal rapidly learns the characteristics of its mother and forms a strong social attachment to her.
www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~ppgb/book.html   (3101 words)

  
 Patrick Bateson reviews Genomic Imprinting and Kinship by David Haig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Conflict may occur between parents in determining the character of their offspring through a mechanism known as “genomic imprinting” (not to be confused with behavioural imprinting of the Konrad Lorenz type).
When genomic imprinting surfaced as a phenomenon, it was natural that David Haig should have seized on the parental asymmetries for further explorations of evolutionary conflict.
However, genomic imprinting achieves the goal of minimising at least one of the costs of outbreeding by ensuring that all the genes that are required for building an intricate structure such as the brain come from one parent.
human-nature.com /ep/reviews/ep028688.html   (1182 words)

  
 Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development - Cambridge University Press
All the significant conceptual and empirical advances in this study of behavioural development are discussed in this volume by a wide range of scientists from different disciplines.
A special feature of the approach taken here is that learning, as studied by experimental psychologists, is considered to be one process contributing to the development of the individual from conception to death.
Behavioural change as a result of experience: toward principles of learning and development P. Balsam, and R. Silver; 15.
www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521432413   (408 words)

  
 Biological Sciences, Open University
Marler, Konishi and Notttebohm pioneered the behavioural and neurobiological analysis of song learning in song sparrows, canaries and zebra finches (Marler, 1991;Konishi, 1989;Nottebohm, 1970; 1980), tracing neural pathways, identifying issues of lateralisation, hormonal and related effects which have found their parallels in work with the chick.
Imprinting, as a form of early learning in some avian species, had been known folklorically for many years (Bateson, 1966), but was drawn to scientific attention by the work of Lorenz (eg Lorenz, 1935) although his interpretations of the phenomenon were not uncritically received.
Bateson, PPG (1966) The Characteristics and Context of Imprinting Biol.
www.open.ac.uk /science/biosci/research/rose/landm.htm   (7171 words)

  
 Lesley Rogers Publications prior to 1996
Rogers, L.J. Organisation of brain and behaviour in the chicken: the influence of nutrition on it and its effects on learning and feeding.
Johnston, A.N., Rogers, L.J. and Johnston, G.A.R. Glutamate and imprinting memory: the role of glutamate receptors in the encoding of imprinting memory.
Johnston, A.N., Rogers, L.J. and Dodd, P.R. [3H]MK-801 binding asymmetry in the IMHV region of dark-reared chicks is reversed by imprinting.
sciences.une.edu.au /zoology/lrogers_PublicationsPrior1996.asp   (2198 words)

  
 Homepage Lesley Rogers
Lesley Rogers is Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England.
Her research on brain development and animal behaviour has been funded by the Australian research Council continuously from the 1970s and from 1998 to 2002 she held an ARC Special Investigator Award for her research on lateralization of brain function and its changes during development and aging.
Malashichev, Y.B. and Rogers, L.J. (eds) (2002) Behavioural and Morphological Asymmetries in Amphibians and Reptiles.
www.sciences.une.edu.au /zoology/lesleyrogers.asp   (5216 words)

  
 Behavioural Processes.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Klapproth, The effect of study-test modalities on the remembrance of subjective duration from long-term memory, Behavioural Processes 59 (1) (2002) pp.
Kosuke Sawa, Sadahiko Nakajima, Acquired equivalence of flavour cues with a common antecedent in rats, Behavioural Processes 57 (1) (2002) pp.
L.C. Drickamer, T.R. Evans, Chemosignals and activity of wild stock house mice, with a note on the use of running wheels to assess activity in rodents, Behavioural Processes 36 (1) (1996) pp.
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 SSBP - Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes
In another 5%, abnormal genomic imprinting of that region is demonstrated.
Such imprinting defects may be caused by imprinting centre mutations.
Abnormal imprinting in various regions of the brain and the cerebellum are probably responsible for most of the phenotype.
www.ssbp.co.uk /files/syndromes/angelman.htm   (616 words)

  
 behavioural - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 6 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word behavioural:
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Phrases that include behavioural: behavioural genetics, applied behavioural analysis, behavioural ecology, behavioural health, behavioural imprinting, more...
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 The Babraham Institute - Research, Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A major interest of the group is in the brain and behavioural functions of imprinted genes, where expression in the offspring is dependent on whether the allele has passed through the male or female germline.
Together with colleagues from the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics and Imprinting, and supported by a Babraham Institute ‘Synergy’ grant, we have confirmed the sensitivity of brain and behavioural phenotypes to imprinting effects.
In other work we have been focusing on the X chromosome, where we have phenotypic evidence for the existence of imprinted gene(s) influencing cognitive behaviours and a novel imprinted candidate for the behavioural effects.
www.babraham.ac.uk /research/neurobiology/wilkinson   (551 words)

  
 Gisela Helfer, diploma thesis - references
Effects on imprinting of lesions to the chick brain.
The behaviour of the Japanese or domestic quail Coturnix japonica.
Behavioural evidence for individual recognition in Japanese quail.
www.der-helfer.at /gisela/references1.html   (452 words)

  
 Publication list J.J. Bolhuis
Bolhuis, J.J. and Reid, I.C. Effects of intraventricular infusion of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist AP5 on spatial memory of rats in a radial arm maze.
Bolhuis, J.J. and Johnson, M.H. (1988) Effects of response-contingency and stimulus presentation schedule on imprinting in the chick.
Johnson, M.H. and Bolhuis, J.J. (1991) Imprinting, predispositions and filial preference in the chick.
www.bio.uu.nl /behaviour/Bolhuis/PubList.html   (1192 words)

  
 Effects of androgens and oestrogens on the behaviour of chicks in an imprinting situation.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Effects of androgens and oestrogens on the behaviour of chicks in an imprinting situation.
The behavioural effects of testosterone propionate (TP), 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and oestradiol benzoate (OB) were investigated in day-old chicks during imprinting sessions to a duck model.
This could be related to sex differences in the hormonal status of the birds at hatching, as it is known that during incubation male chick embryos have higher plasma testosterone levels than females of corresponding ages.
www.ulg.ac.be /bioneuro/pub/abstracts/a0026.html   (146 words)

  
 Angelman syndrome: a review of the clinical and genetic aspects -- Clayton-Smith and Laan 40 (2): 87 -- Journal of ...
The behavioural characteristics of AS are striking and it is
Paternally imprinted genes are depicted in blue and maternally imprinted genes in pink.
Imprinted expression of the murine Angelman syndrome gene, Ube3a, in hippocampal and Purkinje neurons.
jmg.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/40/2/87   (5641 words)

  
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Clinical diagnosis is confirmed by alteration of imprinted genes on the proximal long arm of chromosome 15 (15q11-13) for deletion, translocation, uniparental disomy for maternal chromosome 15 or imprinting center defect.
DNA methylation analysis with respect to prenatal diagnosis of the Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes and imprinting.
Antipsychotic drugs should be used with caution because of the long-term nature of behavioural problems and the risk of extrapyramidal side-effects.
malattierare.pediatria.unipd.it /pubblicaMR/mr_dx_ing.asp?mr=287   (5240 words)

  
 CPRG - PUBLICATIONS - Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
VALLORTIGARA G., REGOLIN L., ZUCCA P. (2002) "Secondary imprinting in the domestic chick: Binocular and lateralized monocular performance".
REGOLIN L., TOMMASI L., VALLORTIGARA G. (2000) "Visual perception of biological motion in newly hatched chicks as revealed by an imprinting procedure".
BERTOLUCCI C., SOVRANO V.A., MAGNONE C., FOA' A. Role of suprachiasmatic nuclei in circadian and light-entrained behavioural rhythms of lizards.
cprg.psy.unipd.it /publi1.htm   (1131 words)

  
 MIND4Golf - Better Scores All Together!
Whilst it could argued that the golf swing learning part of the day (using rapid neuromuscular imprinting - less than a quarter of the day), could be said to be 'context specific', even this is illustrative of rapid 'one-trial learning' of 'excellence' - in this case.
Versus for most people who experience significant amounts of negative childhood and cultural behavioural imprinting, largely responsible for dysfunctional or limiting behaviours in adulthood.
Our work by contrast is almost exclusively focused on rapid effective behavioural change, the 'how' to do it, and giving people the practical ‘skills’, enabling them to succeed.
www.mind4golf.com /corporate21.asp   (1483 words)

  
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H.-J. Bischof: Sexual imprinting in female zebra finches: Changes in preferences as an effect of adult experience.
Rollenhagen, A.: Behavioural and neurophysiological aspects of sexual imprinting in zebra finches.
(Bi 80) Sadananada, M. and H.-J. Bischof: C-fos is Induced in the Hippocampus During Consolidation of Sexual Imprinting in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata).
www.uni-bielefeld.de /biologie/vhf/BF/Bischof_Publications.html   (1741 words)

  
 staff
Research is in collaboration with researchers at the Czech, Russian and Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Zoology (London), Kyoto University (Japan), the University of Lodz (Poland) and researchers in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
Using the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model we are investigating behavioural adaptations in a series of wild zebrafish populations across Bangladesh and Nepal.
So far we have investigated the habitat preferences and population dynamics of wild zebrafish and aspects of the reproductive biology of wild and domesticated lines, including the role of territoriality and mate choice in male and female reproductive success, behavioural imprinting in mate choice, female oviposition decisions, and alternative male mating tactics.
www.le.ac.uk /biology/staff/cs152/res.htm   (700 words)

  
 CPRG - PUBLICATIONS - Author
CLARA E., REGOLIN L., VALLORTIGARA G. (2004) "Visual perception, form preferences and secondary imprinting in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus)".
SOVRANO, V. (2002) "Modularity and spatial reorientation in a simple mind: encoding of geometric and nongeometric properties of a spatial environment by fish".
XAUSA E. A (2001) "Mathematical model of depth displacement with a contracting bar".
cprg.psy.unipd.it /author.htm   (1921 words)

  
 Liking and disliking in your work setting - CIDCNV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
When we were born we had a behavioural imprinting that will last all our life long and will influence our choices.
Generally a work setting is very stressing and competitive, because personal structure plays a very important role in relationships.
So understanding others’ typology and our one let us understand behaviours that could look not logical and we will be able to approach persons accordingly to their requirements: giving them what they want they will appreciate us more and more.
www.cidcnv.org /english/pagine/approfondimenti/articolo.asp?TestoID=48   (146 words)

  
 NOG Group Member Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
After an undergraduate degree in physiological sciences, I followed my developing interests in neuroscience and behaviour to study the learning process of filial imprinting in newly-hatched chicks.
My PhD thesis investigated the levels of amino acid neurotransmitters from a region of forebrain following formation of an imprinting memory, under the supervision of Dr BJ McCabe at the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley and the Babraham Institute (BBSRC), Cambridge.
This project aims to link behavioural studies of memory processing with cellular studies of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.
noggin.physiol.ox.ac.uk /rhiannon   (286 words)

  
 Zebra Finch Letter 14 - H.-J. Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The next and minor problem that you mention is one of behavioural "imprinting" or "impregnation": Will the chicks' sexual behaviour be affected by the lack of a father or male model during their adolescence or imprinting period?
So make sure his father or some other male Zebra Finch is nearby.
The reason for the behaviour you have been observing my be found in the natural development of young Zebra Finches: Females are sexually mature when they are about three months old and have just completed their juvenile molt, so they usualy choose a mate when their brothers still have another two weeks to "go".
www.zebrafink.de /en/zlett-14.htm   (454 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Behavioural Neurology: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This popular text and reference has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material on violence and the brain, epilepsy, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit disorder, cerebral laterality, genetic abnormalities, behavioural imprinting, and many other issues of current concern.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this popular reference book contains new material on vilence and the brain, epilepsy, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit disorder, cerebral latrality, genetic abnormalities, behavioral imprinting, and many other issues of current concern.
I highly recomend this as a need to read if the area is of your concern,
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195023056   (318 words)

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