ArticleCurrent zoology2017
What artifice can and cannot tell us about animal behavior.
Article in Current zoology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Signaler-receiver-eavesdropper: Risks and rewards of variation in the dominant frequency of male cricket calls.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- The Logic of Interactive Biorobotics.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
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- I see your false colours: how artificial stimuli appear to different animal viewers.Interface focus · 2019Article
- Using a robotic fish to investigate individual differences in social responsiveness in the guppy.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
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- Virtual is the new reality.Current zoology · 2017Article
- Technical and conceptual considerations for using animated stimuli in studies of animal behavior.Current zoology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Artifice-the manipulation of social and environmental stimuli-is fundamental to research in animal behavior. State-of-the-art techniques have been developed to generate and present complex visual stimuli. These techniques have unique strengths and limitations. However, many of the issues with synthetic animation and virtual reality are common to playback experiments in general, including those using unmanipulated video or auditory stimuli. Playback experiments, in turn, fall into the broader category of experiments that artificially manipulate the array of stimuli experienced by a subject. We argue that the challenges of designing and interpreting experiments using virtual reality or synthetic animations are largely comparable to those of studies using older technologies or addressing other modalities, and that technology alone is unlikely to solve these challenges. We suggest that appropriate experimental designs are the key to validating behavioral responses to artificial stimuli and to interpreting all studies using artifice, including those that present complex visual displays.
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