A century of generalization

By S. Ghirlanda, Magnus Enquist. Animal Behaviour, 2003

449 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/65f0e62845d149f6edefcc9f4bf3482105216697

Citations in the corpus

• Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls (2011, unknown): “This suggests that they generalize responses from conspecific calls to unfamiliar calls that are acoustically similar (Ghirlanda and Enquist 2003).”
• Generalization and similarity in exemplar models of categorization: Insights from machine learning (2008, unknown): “In classical conditioning, generalization gradients are obtained by conditioning on a certain stimulus and measuring the response to related, but different, stimuli ( Ghirlanda & Enquist, 2003; Mostofsky, 1965).”
• The placebo effect: From concepts to genes. (2015, unknown): “Importantly, one very adaptive feature of learning is generalization – whereby learning about a specific cue can generalize to other similar cues (see Ghirlanda and Enquist, 2003 for a review of generalization, and Guo et al., 2011 for a specific placeborelated example).”
• Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration (2020, unknown): “Indeed, generalization is seen as one of the central properties of animal cognition that helps in dealing with novelty and variability (205).”
• Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of naïve bird predators (2009, unknown): “Peak shift is a consequence of discrimination learning between positive (Sþ) and negative (S ) stimuli, which differ along the same stimulus dimension (Spence 1937; Hanson 1959; Ghirlanda & Enquist 2003; ten Cate & Rowe 2007).”
• Perceptual Biases and Mate Choice (2013, unknown): “…behavior between honeybees and hummingbirds (Chittka 1992, Lunau et al. 2011), evolution of plumage and bower decorations in bowerbirds (Endler et al. 2005), and sexual selection on signaling displays in chameleons (Stuart-Fox & Moussalli 2008) and tropical forest birds (Gomez & Théry 2007).”
• Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls (2010, unknown): “Third, animals often generalize responses from familiar to novel stimuli (Ghirlanda & Enquist 2003), so it is conceivable that they generalize from conspecific to heterospecific signals.”
• Threat-sensitive generalization of predator recognition by larval amphibians (2009, unknown): “Stimulus generalization has been reported using different sensory modalities (sounds and light), in a variety of taxa (from insects to mammals), in several biological contexts (foraging and courtship) and seems independent of experience with the stimulus (reviewed by Guirlanda and Enquist 2003 ).”