Recent research has explored links between cognition and personality, with prominent
hypotheses proposing that personality drives consistent individual differences in cognitive …

While differences in individual personality are common in animal populations,
understanding the ecological significance of variation has not yet been resolved. Evidence …

Individuals of the same population differ in their cognitive abilities, that is, in their capacity to
acquire, process, store and act on information from the environment. The question of …

In the past decade, several conceptual papers have linked variation in animal personality to
variation in cognition, and recent years have seen a flood of empirical studies testing this …

Highlights•Electrosensing is lateralized in weakly electric fish.•The preferred direction of
electrosensory inputs varies with boldness.•Visual laterality direction is not linked to …

Aquatic habitats are extremely dynamic, with constantly changing ecological factors, which
has now been exacerbated due to human-induced rapid environmental change. In such …

In a number of animal species, individuals differ in their ability to solve cognitive tasks.
However, the mechanisms underlying this variability remain unclear. It has been proposed …

Background The expression of animal personality is indicated by patterns of consistency in
individual behaviour. Often, the differences exhibited between individuals are consistent …

Within populations, individual differences in behavioral and cognitive traits are dependent
on the habitat and specific contexts, such as the presence of a predator or other risks. The …

Recent studies on consistent individual differences in behavioural tendencies (animal
personality) raised the question of whether individual differences in cognitive abilities can be …