On agonistic memory

Aggressiveness and memory: subordinate crabs present higher memory ability than dominants after an agonistic experience.

A relationship between aggressiveness and memory has been proposed in several studies with different animal species. Here, we study this possibility in the crab Chasmagnathus granulatus, using the context-signal memory model (CSM) that involves an association between the learning context and a visual danger stimulus. Each experiment consisted of an agonistic phase and a memory one. During the f...

Design, Democracy and Agonistic Pluralism

In this paper, the author presents an alternative approach to ‘design for democracy,’ drawing on the notion of agonistic pluralism. Specifically, the author highlights the differences between politics and the political within agonistic pluralism, and employing examples of contemporary design projects, discusses how these differences can been seen in the objects and practices of design. Through ...

The Study of Agonistic Behavior

Agonistic Behavior and Acoustic Communication

Sounds are uttered in agonistic contexts by representatives of 30+ families of fishes but this number mainly reflects the scientific expenditure and less so the actual distribution of soundproducing families. Sounds are emitted in numerous contexts: distressful or disturbancesituations, e.g. being attacked or grabbed by predators, competitive feeding, and competition for space and sometimes mat...

Identification of determinants required for agonistic and inverse agonistic ligand properties at the ADP receptor P2Y12.

The ADP receptor P2Y(12) belongs to the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and its activation triggers platelet aggregation. Therefore, potent antagonists, such as clopidogrel, are of high clinical relevance in prophylaxis and treatment of thromboembolic events. P2Y(12) displays an elevated basal activity in vitro, and as such, inverse agonists may be therapeutically beneficial...