Individual differences in behavioural plasticities

JA Stamps - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

[HTML][HTML] The detour paradigm in animal cognition

C Kabadayi, K Bobrowicz, M Osvath - Animal cognition, 2018 - Springer
In this paper, we review one of the oldest paradigms used in animal cognition: the detour
paradigm. The paradigm presents the subject with a situation where a direct route to the …

The evolution of self-control

EL MacLean, B Hare, CL Nunn… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

Measuring and understanding individual differences in cognition

NJ Boogert, JR Madden… - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individuals vary in their cognitive performance. While this variation forms the foundation of
the study of human psychometrics, its broader importance is only recently being recognized …

Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies

BJ Ashton, AR Ridley, EK Edwards, A Thornton - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The social intelligence hypothesis states that the demands of social life drive cognitive
evolution,,. This idea receives support from comparative studies that link variation in group …

Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives

A Thornton, D Lukas - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal cognition experiments frequently reveal striking individual variation but rarely
consider its causes and largely ignore its potential consequences. Studies often focus on a …

Songbird species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains

JN Audet, M Couture, ED Jarvis - Science, 2023 - science.org
Complex vocal learning, a critical component of human spoken language, has been
assumed to be associated with more-advanced cognitive abilities. Tests of this hypothesis …

Cognitive test batteries in animal cognition research: evaluating the past, present and future of comparative psychometrics

RC Shaw, M Schmelz - Animal cognition, 2017 - Springer
For the past two decades, behavioural ecologists have documented consistent individual
differences in behavioural traits within species and found evidence for animal “personality” …

Wild psychometrics: evidence for 'general'cognitive performance in wild New Zealand robins, Petroica longipes

RC Shaw, NJ Boogert, NS Clayton, KC Burns - Animal Behaviour, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•We developed a cognitive test battery for wild New Zealand robins, Petroica
longipes.•Robins varied greatly in their cognitive performance in the six test battery tasks.•A …

[图书][B] The genius of birds

J Ackerman - 2017 - books.google.com
“Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of 'bird brains,'[Ackerman] shows them to be
uniquely impressive machines...”—New York Times Book Review “A lyrical testimony to the …