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Sergio M. Pellis

Sergio M. Pellis

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Psychology

D-Index
75
Citations
15773
World Ranking
1818
National Ranking
96

Overview

Sergio M. Pellis is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada, specializing in research that spans psychology and neuroscience. Their scholarly work focuses extensively on the behavioral and neurobiological aspects of social interactions and play among animals, particularly rodents and primates.

The primary fields of study in Sergio M. Pellis' research include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Their work also covers multiple subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The research topics frequently addressed in Sergio M. Pellis' publications are:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Play fighting and the development of the social brain: The rat's tale (2023), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Measuring Play Fighting in Rats: A Multilayered Approach (2022), Current Protocols
  • The rough-and-tumble play of rats as a natural behavior suitable for studying the social brain (2022), Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Other related publications connected to the research area, although not solely authored by Pellis, demonstrate ongoing interest in social and developmental behaviors:

  • Male Long Evans rats reared with a Fischer-344 peer during the juvenile period show deficits in social competency: a role for play (2020), International Journal of Play
  • Inferring functional patterns of tool use behavior from the temporal structure of object play sequences in a non-human primate species (2020), Physiology & Behavior

Sergio M. Pellis has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Vivien C. Pellis
  • Jackson R. Ham
  • Rachel Stark
  • Candace J. Burke
  • Jean-Baptiste Leca

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • International Journal of Play
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Behavioural Processes
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

In addition to journal articles, Sergio M. Pellis has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Understanding Animal Behaviour (2021)

Best Publications

  • The structure of skilled forelimb reaching in the rat: a proximally driven movement with a single distal rotatory component.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Sergio M. Pellis

  • Play‐fighting differs from serious fighting in both target of attack and tactics of fighting in the laboratory rat Rattus norvegicus

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • The impairments in reaching and the movements of compensation in rats with motor cortex lesions: an endpoint, videorecording, and movement notation analysis.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Sergio M. Pellis;Boguslaw P. Gorny;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Proximal and distal impairments in rat forelimb use in reaching follow unilateral pyramidal tract lesions.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Sergio M. Pellis;Sergio M. Pellis;Boguslaw Gorny;Boguslaw Gorny;Bryan Kolb;Bryan Kolb

  • Differential rates of attack, defense, and counterattack during the developmental decrease in play fighting by male and female rats.

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Rough-and-Tumble Play and the Development of the Social Brain

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Multiple differences in the play fighting of male and female rats. Implications for the causes and functions of play

    Sergio M. Pellis;Evelyn F. Field;Lori K. Smith;Vivien C. Pellis

  • The Influence of Phylogeny on the Social Behaviour of Macaques (Primates: Cercopithecidae, genus Macaca)

    Bernard Thierry;Andrew N. Iwaniuk;Sergio M. Pellis

  • Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices.

    Heather C. Bell;Sergio M. Pellis;Bryan Kolb

  • Play fighting of rats in comparative perspective: a schema for neurobehavioral analyses

    Sergio M Pellis;Vivien C Pellis

  • Skilled reaching in rats and humans: evidence for parallel development or homology

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Sergio M. Pellis;Boguslaw P. Gorny

  • The Function of Play in the Development of the Social Brain.

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis;Heather C. Bell

  • Impact of adolescent social experiences on behavior and neural circuits implicated in mental illnesses.

    Andrew R. Burke;Cheryl M. McCormick;Sergio M. Pellis;Jodi L. Lukkes

  • The role of the cortex in play fighting by rats: Developmental and evolutionary implications.

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Vestibular Information Is Required for Dead Reckoning in the Rat

    Douglas G. Wallace;Dustin J. Hines;Sergio M. Pellis;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication

    Elisabetta Palagi;Gordon M. Burghardt;Barbara Smuts;Giada Cordoni

  • On knowing it's only play: The role of play signals in play fighting

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Evidence for rodent-common and species-typical limb and digit use in eating, derived from a comparative analysis of ten rodent species

    I.Q. Whishaw;J.R. Sarna;S.M. Pellis

  • Agonistic versus amicable targets of attack and defense: Consequences for the origin, function, and descriptive classification of play-fighting.

    Sergio M. Pellis

  • Adult–Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of its Origin, Distribution and Evolution

    Sergio M. Pellis;Andrew N. Iwaniuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Vivien C. Pellis
Vivien C. Pellis University of Lethbridge
Paul L. Vasey
Paul L. Vasey University of Lethbridge
Elisabetta Palagi
Elisabetta Palagi University of Pisa
Doug P. VanderLaan
Doug P. VanderLaan University of Toronto
Cheryl M. McCormick
Cheryl M. McCormick Brock University
Markus Wöhr
Markus Wöhr Philipp University of Marburg

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