... into how echolocating animals deal with the constraints they face when sequentially sampling the world through sound by adjusting acoustic information flow from slow to extremely fast in a highly dynamic manner. Our results further highlight the paramount importance of high behavioural flexibility...

...Andrea Dissegna; Andrea Caputi; Cinzia Chiandetti ABSTRACT Behavioural flexibility allows adaptation to environmental changes, a situation that invasive species have often to face when colonizing new territories. Such flexibility arises from a set of cognitive mechanisms among which generalization...

...Annika Boussard; Séverine D. Buechel; Mirjam Amcoff; Alexander Kotrschal; Niclas Kolm ABSTRACT Reversal learning assays are commonly used across a wide range of taxa to investigate associative learning and behavioural flexibility. In serial reversal learning, the reward contingency in a binary...

... as a crucial feature that allows animals to maximize performance for a given environment. For example, many animals alter their ways of searching for and obtaining food in order to maximize the benefits, a behaviour known as optimal foraging ( Krebs, 2009 ). Anthropogenic noise Behavioural flexibility...

..., reversible patterns of social plasticity (i.e. behavioural flexibility), which involve fast and transient changes between behavioural states, are explained more parsimoniously by biochemical switching of existing neural networks by different neuromodulatory molecules (i.e. neuropeptides, monoamines...