ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
The smell of cooperation: rats increase helpful behaviour when receiving odour cues of a conspecific performing a cooperative task.
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- A rat model of volitional mutual social interactions.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Diverse and flexible strategies enable successful cooperation in marmoset dyads.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Shaping behaviors through social experience and their proposed sensitivity to stress.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Article
- Through an animal's eye: the implications of diverse sensory systems in scientific experimentation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Social odor choice buffers drug craving.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- In search of prosociality in rodents: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Asian elephants distinguish sexual status and identity of unfamiliar elephants using urinary odours.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Assessment of help value affects reciprocation in Norway rats.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- When deciding to cooperate by direct reciprocity, Norway rats sometimes benefit from olfactory competence and seem not impaired by insufficient cognitive abilities.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Unraveling female communication through scent marks in the Norway rat.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Evidence suggesting that reindeer mothers allonurse according to the direct reciprocity and generalized reciprocity decision rules.PloS one · 2023Article
- Ethorobotic rats for rodent behavioral research: design considerations.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Reaching Out for Inaccessible Food Is a Potential Begging Signal in Cooperating Wild-Type Norway Rats,Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Reciprocity can explain cooperative behaviour among non-kin, where individuals help others depending on their experience in previous interactions. Norway rats (
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