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Brett T Himmler; VC Pellis; Sergio M Pellis
Peering into the dynamics of social interactions: measuring play fighting in rats.
Sergio M Pellis; VC Pellis
Anatomy is important, but need not be destiny: novel uses of the thumb in aye-ayes compared to other lemurs.
Sergio M Pellis; VC Pellis; Christine J Reinhart; Bernard Thierry
The use of the bared-teeth display during play fighting in Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana): sometimes it is all about oneself.

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2013: Brett T Himmler; VC Pellis; Sergio M Pellis
Peering into the dynamics of social interactions: measuring play fighting in rats.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2013;(71):e4288.
2012: Sergio M Pellis; VC Pellis
Anatomy is important, but need not be destiny: novel uses of the thumb in aye-ayes compared to other lemurs.
Behavioural brain research 2012;231(2):378-85.
2011: Sergio M Pellis; VC Pellis; Christine J Reinhart; Bernard Thierry
The use of the bared-teeth display during play fighting in Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana): sometimes it is all about oneself.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2011;125(4):393-403.
2011: Sergio M Pellis; Heather C Bell
Closing the circle between perceptions and behavior: a cybernetic view of behavior and its consequences for studying motivation and development.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 2011;1(4):404-13.
2010: G Campbell Teskey; Sergio M Pellis
Special issue on behavioural and neural plasticity.
Behavioural brain research 2010;214(1):1-2.
2010: Jon B Doan; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Oksana Suchowersky; Natalie de Bruin; Lesley A Brown
Challenging context affects standing reach kinematics among Parkinson's disease patients.
Behavioural brain research 2010;214(1):135-41.
2010: Sergio M Pellis
Conservative motor systems, behavioral modulation and neural plasticity.
Behavioural brain research 2010;214(1):25-9.
2010: Heather C Bell; Sergio M Pellis; Bryan Kolb
Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices.
Behavioural brain research 2010;207(1):7-13.
2009: Heather C Bell; David R McCaffrey; Margaret L Forgie; Bryan Kolb; Sergio M Pellis
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the play fighting of rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 2009;123(6):1158-68.
2008: Evelyn F Field; Sergio M Pellis
The brain as the engine of sex differences in the organization of movement in rats.
Archives of sexual behavior 2008;37(1):30-42.
2007: Holly Kamitakahara; Marie-H Monfils; Margaret L Forgie; Bryan Kolb; Sergio M Pellis
The modulation of play fighting in rats: role of the motor cortex.
Behavioral neuroscience 2007;121(1):164-76.
2006: Evelyn F Field; Gerlinde A Metz; Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
Sexually dimorphic postural adjustments during vertical behaviour are altered in a unilateral 6-OHDA rat model of Parkinson's disease.
Behavioural brain research 2006;174(1):39-48.
2006: Lesley A Brown; Stephanie A Cooper; Jon B Doan; D Clark Dickin; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Oksana Suchowersky
Parkinsonian deficits in sensory integration for postural control: temporal response to changes in visual input.
Parkinsonism & related disorders 2006;12(6):376-81.
2006: Evelyn F Field; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Neil V Watson
Play fighting in androgen-insensitive tfm rats: evidence that androgen receptors are necessary for the development of adult playful attack and defense.
Developmental psychobiology 2006;48(2):111-20.
2006: Christine J Reinhart; Dan C McIntyre; Gerlinde A Metz; Sergio M Pellis
Play fighting between kindling-prone (FAST) and kindling-resistant (SLOW) rats.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2006;120(1):19-30.
2006: Sergio M Pellis; Erica Hastings; Takeshi Shimizu; Holly Kamitakahara; Joanna Komorowska; Margaret L Forgie; Bryan Kolb
The effects of orbital frontal cortex damage on the modulation of defensive responses by rats in playful and nonplayful social contexts.
Behavioral neuroscience 2006;120(1):72-84.
2006: Jon B Doan; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Oksana Suchowersky; Lesley A Brown
Motor deficits in Parkinsonian reaching: dopa-sensitivity influenced by real-world task constraint.
Journal of motor behavior 2006;38(1):45-59.
2005: Stephanie A Cooper; Jon B Doan; Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw; Lesley A Brown
Reducing stability of support structure for a target does not alter reach kinematics among younger adults.
Perceptual and motor skills 2005;100(3 Pt 1):831-8.
2005: Kyle G Melvin; Jon B Doan; Sergio M Pellis; Lesley Brown; Ian Q Whishaw; Oksana Suchowersky
Pallidal deep brain stimulation and L-dopa do not improve qualitative aspects of skilled reaching in Parkinson's disease.
Behavioural brain research 2005;160(1):188-94.
2005: Evelyn F Field; David J Martens; Neil V Watson; Sergio M Pellis
Sex differences in righting from supine to prone in rats (Rattus norvegicus): a masculinized skeletomusculature is not required.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2005;119(2):238-45.
2005: Evelyn F Field; Neil V Watson; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis
A masculinized skeletomusculature is not necessary for male-typical patterns of food-protective movement.
Hormones and behavior 2005;47(1):49-55.
2004: Evelyn F Field; Ian Q Whishaw; Margaret L Forgie; Sergio M Pellis
Neonatal and pubertal, but not adult, ovarian steroids are necessary for the development of female-typical patterns of dodging to protect a food item.
Behavioral neuroscience 2004;118(6):1293-304.
2004: Joanna Komorowska; Sergio M Pellis
Regulatory mechanisms underlying novelty-induced grooming in the laboratory rat.
Behavioural processes 2004;67(2):287-93.
2004: Christine J Reinhart; Sergio M Pellis; Dan C McIntyre
Development of play fighting in kindling-prone (FAST) and kindling-resistant (SLOW) rats: how does the retention of phenotypic juvenility affect the complexity of play?
Developmental psychobiology 2004;45(2):83-92.
2004: Afra Foroud; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis
Experience and cortical control over the pubertal transition to rougher play fighting in rats.
Behavioural brain research 2004;149(1):69-76.
2003: Afra Foroud; Sergio M Pellis
The development of "roughness" in the play fighting of rats: a Laban Movement Analysis perspective.
Developmental psychobiology 2003;42(1):35-43.
2002: Douglas G Wallace; Dustin J Hines; Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
Vestibular information is required for dead reckoning in the rat.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002;22(22):10009-17.
2002: Sergio M Pellis; Andrew N Iwaniuk
Brain system size and adult-adult play in primates: a comparative analysis of the roles of the non-visual neocortex and the amygdala.
Behavioural brain research 2002;134(1-2):31-9.
2002: Ian Q Whishaw; Oksana Suchowersky; Leigh Davis; Justyna Sarna; Gerlinde A Metz; Sergio M Pellis
Impairment of pronation, supination, and body co-ordination in reach-to-grasp tasks in human Parkinson's disease (PD) reveals homology to deficits in animal models.
Behavioural brain research 2002;133(2):165-76.
2002: Sergio M Pellis
Sex differences in play fighting revisited: traditional and nontraditional mechanisms of sexual differentiation in rats.
Archives of sexual behavior 2002;31(1):17-26.
2001: Ian Q Whishaw; Gerlinde A Metz; Bryan Kolb; Sergio M Pellis
Accelerated nervous system development contributes to behavioral efficiency in the laboratory mouse: a behavioral review and theoretical proposal.
Developmental psychobiology 2001;39(3):151-70.
2001: Andrew N Iwaniuk; John E Nelson; Sergio M Pellis
Do big-brained animals play more? Comparative analyses of play and relative brain size in mammals.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2001;115(1):29-41.
2000: Evelyn F Field; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis
Sex differences in catalepsy: evidence for hormone-dependent postural mechanisms in haloperidol-treated rats.
Behavioural brain research 2000;109(2):207-12.
2000: Sergio M Pellis; Andrew N Iwaniuk
Comparative analyses of the role of postnatal development on the expression of play fighting.
Developmental psychobiology 2000;36(2):136-47.
1999: Andrew N Iwaniuk; Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
Brain size is not correlated with forelimb dexterity in fissiped carnivores (Carnivora): A comparative test of the principle of proper mass.
Brain, behavior and evolution 1999;54(3):167-80.
1999: Sergio M Pellis; Evelyn F Field; Ian Q Whishaw
The development of a sex-differentiated defensive motor pattern in rats: A possible role for juvenile experience.
Developmental psychobiology 1999;35(2):156-64.
1999: Andrew N Iwaniuk; Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
Is digital dexterity really related to corticospinal projections?: a re-analysis of the Heffner and Masterton data set using modern comparative statistics.
Behavioural brain research 1999;101(2):173-87.
1999: Sergio M Pellis; T J Pasztor
The developmental onset of a rudimentary form of play fighting in C57 mice.
Developmental psychobiology 1999;34(3):175-82.
1998: Ian Q Whishaw; Justyna Sarna; Sergio M Pellis
Evidence for rodent-common and species-typical limb and digit use in eating, derived from a comparative analysis of ten rodent species.
Behavioural brain research 1998;96(1-2):79-91.
1998: Lori K Smith; Margaret L Forgie; Sergio M Pellis
Mechanisms underlying the absence of the pubertal shift in the playful defense of female rats.
Developmental psychobiology 1998;33(2):147-56.
1998: Sergio M Pellis; VC Pellis
Play fighting of rats in comparative perspective: a schema for neurobehavioral analyses.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 1998;23(1):87-101.
1997: Lori K Smith; Margaret L Forgie; Sergio M Pellis
The postpubertal change in the playful defense of male rats depends upon neonatal exposure to gonadal hormones.
Physiology & behavior 1997;63(1):151-5.
1997: Ian Q Whishaw; N C Woodward; Elena I Miklyaeva; Sergio M Pellis
Analysis of limb use by control rats and unilateral DA-depleted rats in the Montoya staircase test: movements, impairments and compensatory strategies.
Behavioural brain research 1997;89(1-2):167-77.
1997: Sergio M Pellis; VC Pellis
The prejuvenile onset of play fighting in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus).
Developmental psychobiology 1997;31(3):193-205.
1997: Evelyn F Field; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis
A kinematic analysis of sex-typical movement patterns used during evasive dodging to protect a food item: the role of testicular hormones.
Behavioral neuroscience 1997;111(4):808-15.
1997: Ian Q Whishaw; B L Coles; Sergio M Pellis; Elena I Miklyaeva
Impairments and compensation in mouth and limb use in free feeding after unilateral dopamine depletions in a rat analog of human Parkinson's disease.
Behavioural brain research 1997;84(1-2):167-77.
1997: Sergio M Pellis; Evelyn F Field; Lori K Smith; VC Pellis
Multiple differences in the play fighting of male and female rats. Implications for the causes and functions of play.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 1997;21(1):105-20.
1996: D J Martens; Ian Q Whishaw; Elena I Miklyaeva; Sergio M Pellis
Spatio-temporal impairments in limb and body movements during righting in an hemiparkinsonian rat analogue: relevance to axial apraxia in humans.
Brain research 1996;733(2):253-62.
1996: T L Ivanco; Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
Skilled forelimb movements in prey catching and in reaching by rats (Rattus norvegicus) and opossums (Monodelphis domestica): relations to anatomical differences in motor systems.
Behavioural brain research 1996;79(1-2):163-81.
1996: Evelyn F Field; Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis
A kinematic analysis of evasive dodging movements used during food protection in the rat (Rattus norvegicus): evidence for sex differences in movement.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 1996;110(3):298-306.
1996: Sergio M Pellis; M M McKenna; Evelyn F Field; V C Pellis; Glen T Prusky; Ian Q Whishaw
Uses of vision by rats in play fighting and other close-quarter social interactions.
Physiology & behavior 1996;59(4-5):905-13.
1996: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
Visual modulation of air righting by rats involves calculation of time-to-impact, but does not require the detection of the looming stimulus of the approaching ground.
Behavioural brain research 1996;74(1-2):207-11.
1995: Sergio M Pellis; M McKenna
What do rats find rewarding in play fighting?--an analysis using drug-induced non-playful partners.
Behavioural brain research 1995;68(1):65-73.
1994: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis
Development of righting when falling from a bipedal standing posture: evidence for the dissociation of dynamic and static righting reflexes in rats.
Physiology & behavior 1994;56(4):659-63.
1994: Evelyn F Field; Sergio M Pellis
Differential effects of amphetamine on the attack and defense components of play fighting in rats.
Physiology & behavior 1994;56(2):325-30.
1994: Ian Q Whishaw; Bogdan Gorny; Ly T L Tran-Nguyen; E Castañeda; Elena I Miklyaeva; Sergio M Pellis
Making two movements at once: impairments of movement, posture, and their integration underlie the adult skilled reaching deficit of neonatally dopamine-depleted rats.
Behavioural brain research 1994;61(1):65-77.
1994: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; M M McKenna
Feminine dimension in the play fighting of rats (Rattus norvegicus) and its defeminization neonatally by androgens.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 1994;108(1):68-73.
1993: A J Cordover; Sergio M Pellis; P Teitelbaum
Haloperidol exaggerates proprioceptive-tactile support reflexes and diminishes vestibular dominance over them.
Behavioural brain research 1993;56(2):197-201.
1993: Sergio M Pellis; E Castañeda; M M McKenna; Ly T L Tran-Nguyen; Ian Q Whishaw
The role of the striatum in organizing sequences of play fighting in neonatally dopamine-depleted rats.
Neuroscience letters 1993;158(1):13-5.
1993: Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Bogdan Gorny; Bryan Kolb; W Tetzlaff
Proximal and distal impairments in rat forelimb use in reaching follow unilateral pyramidal tract lesions.
Behavioural brain research 1993;56(1):59-76.
1992: Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis
A behavioral study of the contributions of cells and fibers of passage in the red nucleus of the rat to postural righting, skilled movements, and learning.
Behavioural brain research 1992;52(1):29-44.
1992: Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Bogdan Gorny
Medial frontal cortex lesions impair the aiming component of rat reaching.
Behavioural brain research 1992;50(1-2):93-104.
1992: Sergio M Pellis; M M McKenna
Intrinsic and extrinsic influences on play fighting in rats: effects of dominance, partner's playfulness, temperament and neonatal exposure to testosterone propionate.
Behavioural brain research 1992;50(1-2):135-45.
1992: Ian Q Whishaw; H C Dringenberg; Sergio M Pellis
Spontaneous forelimb grasping in free feeding by rats: motor cortex aids limb and digit positioning.
Behavioural brain research 1992;48(2):113-25.
1992: Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Bogdan Gorny
Skilled reaching in rats and humans: evidence for parallel development or homology.
Behavioural brain research 1992;47(1):59-70.
1992: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; J E Nelson
The development of righting reflexes in the pouch young of the marsupial Dasyurus hallucatus.
Developmental psychobiology 1992;25(2):105-25.
1992: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw
The role of the cortex in play fighting by rats: developmental and evolutionary implications.
Brain, behavior and evolution 1992;39(5):270-84.
1991: Sergio M Pellis; Ian Q Whishaw; V C Pellis
Visual modulation of vestibularly-triggered air-righting in rats involves the superior colliculus.
Behavioural brain research 1991;46(2):151-6.
1991: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum
Labyrinthine and other supraspinal inhibitory controls over head-and-body ventroflexion.
Behavioural brain research 1991;46(1):99-102.
1991: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum
Air righting without the cervical righting reflex in adult rats.
Behavioural brain research 1991;45(2):185-8.
1991: Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis; Bogdan Gorny; V C Pellis
The impairments in reaching and the movements of compensation in rats with motor cortex lesions: an endpoint, videorecording, and movement notation analysis.
Behavioural brain research 1991;42(1):77-91.
1990: Ian Q Whishaw; Sergio M Pellis
The structure of skilled forelimb reaching in the rat: a proximally driven movement with a single distal rotatory component.
Behavioural brain research 1990;41(1):49-59.
1990: Sergio M Pellis; P Teitelbaum; M E Meyer
Labyrinthine and visual involvement in the dorsal immobility response of adult rats.
Behavioural brain research 1990;39(2):197-204.
1990: J D Porter; Sergio M Pellis; M E Meyer
An open-field activity analysis of labyrinthectomized rats.
Physiology & behavior 1990;48(1):27-30.
1990: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis
Differential rates of attack, defense, and counterattack during the developmental decrease in play fighting by male and female rats.
Developmental psychobiology 1990;23(3):215-31.
1989: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; Y C Chen; S Barzci; P Teitelbaum
Recovery from axial apraxia in the lateral hypothalamic labyrinthectomized rat reveals three elements of contact-righting: cephalocaudal dominance, axial rotation, and distal limb action.
Behavioural brain research 1989;35(3):241-51.
1989: T K Morrissey; Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum
Seemingly paradoxical jumping in cataleptic haloperidol-treated rats is triggered by postural instability.
Behavioural brain research 1989;35(3):195-207.
1989: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; T K Morrissey; P Teitelbaum
Visual modulation of vestibularly-triggered air-righting in the rat.
Behavioural brain research 1989;35(1):23-6.
1988: Sergio M Pellis; D P O'Brien; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum; D L Wolgin; S Kennedy
Escalation of feline predation along a gradient from avoidance through "play" to killing.
Behavioral neuroscience 1988;102(5):760-77.
1988: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis
Play-fighting in the Syrian golden hamster Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse, and its relationship to serious fighting during postweaning development.
Developmental psychobiology 1988;21(4):323-37.
1987: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; R M Chesire; N Rowland; P Teitelbaum
Abnormal gait sequence in locomotion after atropine treatment of catecholamine-deficient akinetic rats.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1987;84(23):8750-3.
1987: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum
'Axial apraxia' in labyrinthectomized lateral hypothalamic-damaged rats.
Neuroscience letters 1987;82(2):217-20.
1987: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; D P O'Brien; F de la Cruz; P Teitelbaum
Pharmacological subtraction of the sensory controls over grasping in rats.
Physiology & behavior 1987;39(1):127-33.
1986: Sergio M Pellis; F de la Cruz; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum
Morphine subtracts subcomponents of haloperidol-isolated postural support reflexes to reveal gradients of their integration.
Behavioral neuroscience 1986;100(5):631-46.
1986: Y C Chen; Sergio M Pellis; D W Sirkin; M Potegal; P Teitelbaum
Bandage backfall: labyrinthine and non-labyrinthine components.
Physiology & behavior 1986;37(5):805-14.
1985: T L DeVietti; Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis; P Teitelbaum
Previous experience disrupts atropine-induced stereotyped "trapping" in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1985;99(6):1128-41.
1985: Sergio M Pellis; Y C Chen; R M Chesire; P Teitelbaum
Head displacement and bracing in haloperidol-treated rats compared to rats with lateral hypothalamic damage.
Physiology & behavior 1985;35(5):799-804.
1985: Sergio M Pellis; Y C Chen; P Teitelbaum
Fractionation of the cataleptic bracing response in rats.
Physiology & behavior 1985;34(5):815-23.
1983: Sergio M Pellis; V C Pellis
Locomotor-rotational movements in the ontogeny and play of the laboratory rat Rattus norvegicus.
Developmental psychobiology 1983;16(4):269-86.