Publications, Preprints and Abstracts

Virtual Ecology

Bond, A.B. (2007) The evolution of color polymorphism: Crypticity, searching images, and apostatic selection. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 38: 489-514. Full Text or PDF

Bond, A.B. & Kamil, A.C. (2006) Spatial heterogeneity, predator cognition, and the evolution of color polymorphism in virtual prey. PNAS 103: 3214-3219. PDF

Bond, A.B. & Kamil, A.C. (2002). Visual predators select for crypticity and polymorphism in virtual prey. Nature 415: 609-614. PDF

Kamil, A.C. & Bond, A.B. (2002) Cognition as an independent variable: Virtual ecology. In: M. Bekoff, C. Allen & G. Burghardt (Eds.), The Cognitive Animal (pp. 143-149). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Link to Book

Kamil, A.C. & Bond, A.B. (2001) The evolution of virtual ecology. In: L.A. Dugatkin (Ed.), Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology (pp. 288-310). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Link to Book

Bond, A.B. & Kamil, A.C.(1998). Apostatic selection by blue jays produces balanced polymorphism in virtual prey. Nature 395: 594-596. PDF

 

Searching Images and Selective Attention

Kamil, A.C. & Bond, A.B. (2006) Selective attention, priming, and foraging behavior. In: T.R. Zentall & E. Wasserman (Eds.), Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations Of Animal Intelligence (pp. 106-126). Oxford: Oxford U. Press. Link to Book

Dukas, R., & Kamil, A.C. (2001). Limited attention: The constraint underlying search image. Behavioral Ecology 12: 192-199. PDF

Dukas, R. & Kamil, A. C. (2000). The cost of limited attention in blue jays. Behavioral Ecology 11: 502-506. PDF

Bond, A.B. & Kamil, A.C. (1999). Searching image in blue jays: Facilitation and interference in sequential priming. Animal Learning and Behavior 27: 461-471. PDF

Kono, H., Reid, P.J. & Kamil, A.C. (1998). The effect of background cuing on prey detection. Animal Behaviour 56: 963-972. PDF

Langley, C., Riley, D.A., Bond, A.B. & Goel, N. (1995). Visual search for natural grains in pigeons: Search images and selective attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 22: 139-151. PDF

Bond, A.B. & Riley, D.A. (1991). Searching image in the pigeon: A test of three hypothetical mechanisms. Ethology 87: 203-224. PDF

Kamil, A.C., Lindstrom, F. & Peters, J. (1985). The detection of cryptic prey by blue jays. I. The effects of travel time. Animal Behaviour 33: 1068-1079. PDF (>1MB)

Bond, A.B. (1983). Visual search and selection of natural stimuli in the pigeon: the attention threshold hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 9: 292-306. PDF

Bond, A.B. (1982). The bead game: response strategies in free assortment. Human Factors 24: 101-110. PDF

Pietrewicz, A.T. & Kamil, A.C. (1981). Search images and the detection of cryptic prey: An operant approach. In: A.C. Kamil & T.D. Sargent (Eds.), Foraging Behavior: Ecological, Ethological, and Psychological Approaches (pp. 311-331). New York: Garland.

Pietrewicz, A.T. & Kamil, A.C. (1979). Search image formation in the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata). Science 204: 1332-1333. PDF

Pietrewicz, A.T. & Kamil, A.C. (1977). Visual detection of cryptic prey by blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata). Science 195: 580-582. PDF