Linking personality and cognition: a meta-analysis

LR Dougherty, LM Guillette - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Why learn? The adaptive value of associative learning in wild populations

J Morand-Ferron - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Recent progress has been made in studying intra-specific variation in
learning.•Individual differences in learning could be examined using random regression.• …

A framework to assess the impact of new animal management technologies on welfare: A case study of virtual fencing

C Lee, IG Colditz, DLM Campbell - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
To be ethically acceptable, new husbandry technologies and livestock management
systems must maintain or improve animal welfare. To achieve this goal, the design and …

The quick are the dead: pheasants that are slow to reverse a learned association survive for longer in the wild

JR Madden, EJG Langley… - … of the Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cognitive abilities probably evolve through natural selection if they provide individuals with
fitness benefits. A growing number of studies demonstrate a positive relationship between …

Social ascent changes cognition, behaviour and physiology in a highly social cichlid fish

KJ Wallace, KD Choudhary… - … of the Royal …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
When an individual ascends in dominance status within their social community, they often
undergo a suite of behavioural, physiological and neuromolecular changes. While these …

Individual variation in cognitive style reflects foraging and anti-predator strategies in a small mammal

V Mazza, J Jacob, M Dammhahn, M Zaccaroni… - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Balancing foraging gain and predation risk is a fundamental trade-off in the life of animals.
Individual strategies to acquire, process, store and use information to solve cognitive tasks …

Testing the predictions of co** styles theory in threespined sticklebacks

MK Bensky, R Paitz, L Pereira, AM Bell - Behavioural Processes, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Co** styles theory provides a framework for understanding individual variation in how
animals respond to environmental change, and predicts how individual differences in stress …

Proactive behavior, but not inhibitory control, predicts repeated innovation by spotted hyenas tested with a multi-access box

L Johnson-Ulrich, Z Johnson-Ulrich, K Holekamp - Animal Cognition, 2018‏ - Springer
Innovation is widely linked to cognitive ability, brain size, and adaptation to novel conditions.
However, successful innovation appears to be influenced by both cognitive factors, such as …

Temperament and problem solving in a population of adolescent guide dogs

EE Bray, MD Sammel, RM Seyfarth, JA Serpell… - Animal Cognition, 2017‏ - Springer
It is often assumed that measures of temperament within individuals are more correlated to
one another than to measures of problem solving. However, the exact relationship between …

Sex differences in cognitive performance and style across domains in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

KJ Wallace, RT Rausch, ME Ramsey, ME Cummings - Animal Cognition, 2020‏ - Springer
Given that the sexes often differ in their ecological and sexual selection pressures, sex
differences in cognitive properties are likely. While research on sexually dimorphic cognition …