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Gordon M. Burghardt

University of Tennessee
Verified email at utk.edu
Cited by 18359

Current perspectives on the biological study of play: signs of progress

KL Graham, GM Burghardt - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the study of play behavior, marked by
much empirical research and theoretical review. These efforts suggest that play may be of …

Rough‐and‐tumble play as a window on animal communication

E Palagi, GM Burghardt, B Smuts, G Cordoni… - Biological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Although RT has been described in many eutherian and marsupial mammals as well as
in some other vertebrates, including birds and frogs (Burghardt, 2005), here we focus on the …

Breaking the social–non‐social dichotomy: a role for reptiles in vertebrate social behavior research?

JS Doody, GM Burghardt, V Dinets - Ethology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… lack of understanding of courtship behavior (see Rivas & Burghardt 2005). For example, the
… 2010b) as well as possible predators (Burghardt & Greene 1988). Play, including social play…

[BOOK][B] The genesis of animal play: Testing the limits

GM Burghardt - 2005 - books.google.com
… In these circumstances we are fortunate to have Gordon Burghardt's The Genesis of Animal
Play return us once again to consider more carefully our relationship to animals in order to …

[BOOK][B] The cognitive animal: Empirical and theoretical perspectives on animal cognition

M Bekoff, C Allen, GM Burghardt - 2002 - books.google.com
… and Gordon Burghardt edited a volume on behavioral development and evolution (Burghardt
and … Gordon Burghardt was trained in an interdisciplinary biopsychology program and has …

Animal awareness: Current perceptions and historical perspective.

GM Burghardt - American psychologist, 1985 - psycnet.apa.org
… on animal mental life per se were rare because of the lack of appropriate methods and
the struggle of classical ethologists to remove behavior as the last refuge of the vitalists (Burghardt

Defining and recognizing play

GM Burghardt - 2010 - academic.oup.com
Defining and Recognizing Play | The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play | Oxford
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Environmental enrichment and cognitive complexity in reptiles and amphibians: Concepts, review, and implications for captive populations

GM Burghardt - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2013 - Elsevier
… in a trend for larger forebrains in the enriched animals, but the small number of animals
and low resolution of the then available equipment led to no definitive conclusions (Burghardt, …

Cognitive ethology and critical anthropomorphism: A snake with two heads and hognose snakes that play dead

GM Burghardt - Cognitive Ethology, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
… 4.1), usually mice, vividly reminded me of the perennial conflict between these two concepts,
both outcasts in respect able discourse after the behavioristic revolution (Burghardt, 1978). …

[PDF][PDF] Learning processes in reptiles

GM Burghardt - Herpetologica, 1977 - researchgate.net
BURGHARDT Let us look more closely at respondent conditioning. After a varying number
of pairings of the unconditioned and neutral stimuli, the latter often apparently triggers the …