This review examines the contribution of research on fishes to the growing field of
behavioural syndromes. Current knowledge of behavioural syndromes in fishes is reviewed …

Abstract Development in many organisms appears to show evidence of sensitive windows—
periods or stages in ontogeny in which individual experience has a particularly strong …

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty,
pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched …

The evolution of leks--clusters of small territories where males congregate and display in
order to attract mates--is of central issue in behavioral ecology, because of the insights it …

▪ Abstract Because information about gender, kin, and social status are essential for
reproduction and survival, it seems likely that specialized neural mechanisms have evolved …

Transitive inference (TI) involves using known relationships to deduce unknown ones (for
example, using A> B and B> C to infer A> C), and is thus essential to logical reasoning. First …

Organisms compete for various resources in the course of sexual reproduction. First, there is
intrasexual competition for obtaining mates. Then, there is the need to exclude reproductive …

Fish are extremely successful vertebrates. Because of a long and divergent history they are
now found in almost every conceiv able aquatic habitat. This radiation has been …

Many aspects of reproductive physiology are subject to regulation by social interactions.
These include changes in neural and physiological substrates of reproduction. How can …

The nonapeptide hormones arginine vasotocin and isotocin play important roles in
mediating social behaviors in fishes. Studies in a diverse range of species demonstrate …