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Vivien C. Pellis

Vivien C. Pellis

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
6357
World Ranking
8852
National Ranking
598

Overview

Vivien C. Pellis is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Their research spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on social psychology and cognitive neuroscience within these broader areas.

The work of Pellis covers a range of topics related to neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, stress responses and cortisol, and zebrafish biomedical research applications.

Frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers in Ethology, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Current Protocols, and the International Journal of Play.

Notable recent papers authored by Pellis are:

  • 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)
  • Play fighting revisited: its design features and how they shape our understanding of its mechanisms and functions (2024, Frontiers in Ethology)
  • The evolution of aggressive and amicable play fighting in primates: a phylogenetic perspective (2022, International Journal of Play)

Pellis has collaborated extensively with several researchers. The most frequent coauthors include Sergio M. Pellis, Jackson R. Ham, Rachel Stark, E. J. Marijke Achterberg, and Candace J. Burke.

In addition to articles, Pellis has authored a book titled Understanding Animal Behaviour, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Sergio M Pellis;Vivien C Pellis

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

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

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

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

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

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • The prejuvenile onset of play fighting in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus).

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • What is play fighting and what is it good for

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Role reversal changes during the ontogeny of play fighting in male rats: Attack vs. defense

    Sergio M. Pellis;Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Play-fighting in the Syrian golden hamster Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse, and its relationship to serious fighting during postweaning development.

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • How Play Makes for a More Adaptable Brain: A Comparative and Neural Perspective.

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis;Brett T. Himmler

  • Some subordinates are more equal than others: play fighting amongst adult subordinate male rats

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis;Mario M. McKenna

  • Targets and Tactics of Play Fighting: Competitive versus Cooperative Styles of Play in Japanese and Tonkean Macaques

    Christine J. Reinhart;Vivien C. Pellis;Bernard Thierry;Claude-Anne Gauthier

  • A descriptive analysis of the postnatal development of contact‐righting in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

    Vivien C. Pellis;Sergio M. Pellis;Philip Teitelbaum

  • Animal Play: Structure-function interface in the analysis of play fighting

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Feminine dimension in the play fighting of rats (Rattus norvegicus) and its defeminization neonatally by androgens.

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis;Mario M. McKenna

  • Different levels of complexity in the play-fighting by muroid rodents appear to result from different levels of intensity of attack and defense

    Sergio M. Pellis;Vivien C. Pellis;Donald A. Dewsbury

  • Rough-and-Tumble Play and the Development of the Social Brain: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

    Sergio M. Pellis;Brett T. Himmler;Stephanie M. Himmler;Vivien C. Pellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio M. Pellis
Sergio M. Pellis University of Lethbridge
Paul L. Vasey
Paul L. Vasey University of Lethbridge
Doug P. VanderLaan
Doug P. VanderLaan University of Toronto
Markus Wöhr
Markus Wöhr Philipp University of Marburg

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