作者
Catarina Vila Pouca, Culum Brown
发表日期
2017/8/1
来源
Current opinion in behavioral sciences
卷号
16
页码范围
46-52
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Highlights
- We review recent updates on research into the cognitive abilities of fish.
- Spatial, social and numerical cognition, consciousness and pain are the main areas.
- Most studies consider proximate and ultimate explanations of learning and behaviour.
- Cognition, consciousness and pain are discussed in context of fish welfare.
- New avenues for future research on fish cognition are proposed.
The field of fish cognition and behaviour is now well established and recent developments reflect a shift to mechanistic, comparative and theoretical approaches compared to early work. In this review we briefly summarise recent advances in four major areas of research: spatial learning, social cognition, numerical competency and cognition, consciousness and pain. The debate on whether fish are conscious and able to feel pain is particularly topical, and we discuss recent behavioural and adaptive arguments in favour of fish …
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CV Pouca, C Brown - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2017