Vivien C. Pellis

Play-fighting differs from serious fighting in both target of attack and tactics of fighting in the laboratory ratRattus norvegicus

Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis · Aggressive Behavior · 1987 · 329 citations

Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience +13

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 et al. · Behavioural Brain Research · 1991 · 298 citations

Movement Notation Analysis, Neuroanatomy, Medicine +12

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 · Developmental Psychobiology · 1990 · 247 citations

Fitness, Differential Rates, Education +21

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

Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2007 · 210 citations

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mechanism, Social Play +27

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

Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis, Heather C. Bell · American journal of play · 2010 · 170 citations

Cognitive Science, Behavioral Sciences, Social Skills +15