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    Responses of Pre-term Infants to the Odour of Mother’s Milk

    Fourteen premature infants (born at 30–33 weeks gestational age) were tested for their responses to the odours of different categories of human breast milk that are commonly available in intensive care nurseri...

    Richard H. Porter, Chantal Raimbault, Anne Henrot… in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11 (2008)

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    Retention of olfactory memories by newborn infants

    Richard H. Porter, John J. Rieser in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 10 (2005)

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    The Role of Olfaction in the Feeding Behavior of Human Neonates

    Chemical cues have been implicated in the feeding behavior of species belonging to all five classes of vertebrates, including (perhaps most surprisingly) birds (Burghardt, 1990; Roper, 1999; Stoddart, 1980). I...

    Richard H. Porter, Heili Varendi, Jan Winberg in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 9 (2001)

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    Olfaction and human kin recognition

    Humans, like other mammals, are capable of discriminating between kin and non‐kin by olfactory cues alone. Shortly after birth, breastfed infants become familiar with, and respond preferentially to, their moth...

    Richard H. Porter in Genetica (1998)

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    Kin recognition in animals: Empirical evidence and conceptual issues

    Andrew R. Blaustein, Richard H. Porter, Michael D. Breed in Behavior Genetics (1988)

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    The ontogeny of sibling recognition in rodents: Superfamily muroidea

    A brief review of the relevant literature indicates that familiarization is the primary (and possibly sole) proximate mechanism mediating the development of sibling recognition in muroid rodents. Littermates t...

    Richard H. Porter in Behavior Genetics (1988)

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    Chemical Signals and Kin Recognition in Spiny Mice (Acomys cahirinus)

    It follows from kin selection theory that the ability to influence the transmission of one’s alleles into future generations would be enhanced in organisms who can readily distinguish between close relatives a...

    Richard H. Porter in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 4 (1986)

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    Food sharing by sibling vs nonsibling spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus)

    In comparison to paired unfamiliar unrelated age-mates, pairs of familiar littermate (sibling) spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) were more active in exploring a novel environment containing limited food resources and...

    Richard H. Porter, John D. Moore, David M. White in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (1981)

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    Sibling recognition in spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus)

    Sibling recognition by spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) was investigated by housing groups consisting of two pairs of littermates together and recording frequency of dyadic pairing. A total of 136 animals (68 pairs ...

    Richard H. Porter, Michael Wyrick, Jan Pankey in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (1978)

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    Olfactory imprinting resulting from brief exposure in Acomys cahirinus

    RECENT experimental studies of olfactory ‘imprinting’ in infant mammals have typically utilised relatively long term exposure to the training odour, during which that odour could become associated with such co...

    RICHARD H. PORTER, FRANK ETSCORN in Nature (1974)

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    Responses of water snakes (Natrix r. rhombifera) and garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) to chemical cues

    In a series of simultaneous two-choice preference tests, water snakes (Natrix r. rhombifera) displayed a significant preference for a clean area of a test chamber vs an area soiled by a conspecific. No differenti...

    Richard H. Porter, James A. Czaplicki in Animal Learning & Behavior (1974)

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    Effects of previous exposure on olfactory discrimination in Acomys cahirinus

    EXPERIMENTS with chicks1–3, rats4,5, and rhesus monkeys6 indicate that previous exposure to a visual pattern facilitates subsequent discrimination learning involving that pattern and a novel visual stimulus. This...

    RICHARD H. PORTER, JERRY T. TREADWAY in Nature (1974)

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    Pre-mating and Pregnancy Stress in Rats affects Behaviour of Grandpups

    EXPERIMENTAL manipulations of female rats have significantly influenced the open field behaviour of their grandpups. This phenomenon has been called “non-genetic transmission of information”1. Whereas the experim...

    FRANCINE WEHMER, RICHARD H. PORTER, BEVERLY SCALES in Nature (1970)

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    Imprinting: Transfer of the following response after initial attachment

    Bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) were imprinted to an auditory-visual stimulus complex. After the critical period, experimental Ss were exposed to the original auditory stimulus plus new visu...

    Richard H. Porter, Laurence J. Stettner in Psychonomic Science (1968)

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