Connectionists: Conference: THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOURAL MECHANISMS, 5-6 Dec 2013, London Zoo

[Tim Fawcett]

This year's ASAB Winter Conference, on 'The evolution of behavioural
mechanisms', will take place on 5-6 December 2013 at the Zoological
Society of London. The meeting is completely free to attend and there
is no need to register in advance. Below is the list of talks and
posters. See tinyurl.com/winterasab2013 for further information.

Hope to see you there!

Tim Fawcett, Andy Higginson & Pete Trimmer
Modelling Animal Decisions (MAD) group, University of Bristol


PLENARIES
* Melissa Bateson - Memory of hunger: cognitive scars of early-life
adversity in European starlings?
* Reuven Dukas - Social information use in fruit flies: mechanisms and functions
* Simon Laughlin - Ascending Shannon's slopes: how the cost of
information constrains brains

NIKO TINBERGEN LECTURE
* Marlene Zuk - The role of behaviour in the establishment of novel traits

CONTRIBUTED TALKS
* Willem Frankenhuis - When does natural selection favour sensitive
periods in development?
* Alex Kacelnik - Paradoxical preferences for low probability of
reward: how adaptive mechanisms can have costly consequences
* Kate Morgan - Decision making in context: comparing the choices of
humans and animals
* Vivek Nityananda - Bumblebee visual search for multiple learned target types
* Dave Shuker - Constraints on adaptive sex allocation behaviour
* Jarl Giske - Effects of the emotion system on adaptive behaviour
* Dani Sulikowski - The function of mechanism: linking cognition to
foraging ecology
* Jayden van Horik - Behavioural flexibility in parrots
* Robert Biegler - Relational complexity
* Frederic Mery - Diffusion of social information within Drosophila
group : natural genetic variation for social transmission
* Neeltje Boogert - Pre- and post-natal stress have opposing effects
on social information use
* Rui Oliveira - Searching for the social brain: neural and molecular
mechanisms of social learning in zebrafish
* Gerit Pfuhl - Complex behaviour despite a simple ear
* Thomas Hills - Animal foraging and the evolution of attentional control
* Oren Kolodny - Foraging challenges in statistically structured
environments give rise to learning mechanisms which may account for
‘advanced cognitive abilities’
* Alexander Kotrschal - From artificial selection to transcriptomics:
the cognitive benefits of, and the gene responsible for, a large brain
* Joe Woodgate - What mechanisms underlie visually-guided navigation
in foraging wood ants (Formica rufa)?
* Sophie Mowles - The costs of courtship: using physiology and
performance to understand what females want
* Michele Johnson - The evolution of muscle physiology and social
behaviour in Caribbean Anolis lizards
* Arnon Lotem - Evolution of learning and levels of selection: a
lesson from avian parent–offspring communication
* Patricia Lopes - Socially-induced plasticity of sickness behaviours
and its neuroendocrine basis
* Michal Arbilly - Complex interactions between individual and social
learning processes shape their evolution
* Magda Teles - Socially driven changes in neural plasticity mediate
behavioural flexibility
* Luc-Alain Giraldeau - Non-social learning in a social context

CONTRIBUTED POSTERS
* Christian Agrillo - Evidence of multiple cognitive systems
underlying numerical abilities of vertebrates
* Stefan Leitner - Environmental and genetic control of brain and song
structure in the zebra finch
* Anne Salvanes - Environmental enrichment promotes neural plasticity
and cognitive ability in fish
* Julia Purser - Costly responses to acoustic stressors: underlying
physiology, psychology and flexibility?
* Lorenz Gygax - Mood–emotion interaction effects on behavioural and
brain reactions of sheep exposed to video images of social
interactions
* João Messias - The role of dopaminergic system in the modulation of
the Indo-Pacific bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus
cooperative behaviour
* Cecilia Wikström - Behavioural and molecular responses to a social
challenge in a cooperative breeder reared in different social
environments
* Claudia Kasper - Behavioural and genomic responses of a
cooperatively breeding cichlid to a helping task
* David Baracchi - Nestmate recogniton in Stenogastrinae wasps: visual
and chemical information are not integrated in a multimodal sensory
cue
* Cedric Tan - Sex-specific response to the familiarity of mates, and
the role of olfaction
* Zineb El Filali - Mass spectrometric study of the peptidergic
neurotransmission regulating male mating in a mollusc, Lymnaea
stagnalis
* F-X Dechaume-Moncharmont - Scramble competition severely impairs
mate choosiness
* Thomas Hoffmeister - What makes a forager leave a resource patch?
Confronting models with reality
* Benja Fallenstein - Heritable personality traits probably aren’t
correct Bayesian priors
* Noa Truskanov - Active search and self-experience mediate the
success of both social and individual learning in house sparrow
fledglings
* Thomas Hesselberg - Behavioural flexibility and learning in orb spiders
* Erika Dawson - Learning by observing others arises through simple
associations in an insect model
* Barbara Webb - Not so simple associative learning
* Kit Longden - Internal state modulation of visual motion processing
in walking blowflies
* Adrian Bell - Locusts show handedness during goal-orientated movements

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