How does the brain learn environmental structure? Ten core principles for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of statistical learning

CM Conway - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: a behavioural ecology perspective

A Sih, M Del Giudice - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
With the exception of a few model species, individual differences in cognition remain
relatively unstudied in non-human animals. One intriguing possibility is that variation in …

The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

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 …

The evolution of general intelligence

JM Burkart, MN Schubiger… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations

A Lotem, JY Halpern, S Edelman… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
When humans and other animals make cultural innovations, they also change their
environment, thereby imposing new selective pressures that can modify their biological …

The fast and the flexible: cognitive style drives individual variation in cognition in a small mammal

V Mazza, JA Eccard, M Zaccaroni, J Jacob… - Animal Behaviour, 2018 - Elsevier
Patterns of individual differences in cognition have been studied empirically and
systematically in the last decade, but causes and consequences of this variation are still …

Learning by observation emerges from simple associations in an insect model

EH Dawson, A Avarguès-Weber, L Chittka… - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
Recent debate has questioned whether animal social learning truly deserves the label"
social"[1]. Solitary animals can sometimes learn from conspecifics [2, 3], and social learning …

Long-term repeatability of cognitive performance

BJ Ashton, A Thornton… - Royal Society Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Measures of cognitive performance, derived from psychometric tasks, have yielded
important insights into the factors governing cognitive variation. However, concerns remain …

Stress axis programming generates long-term effects on cognitive abilities in a cooperative breeder

M Reyes-Contreras, B Taborsky - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability to flexibly adjust behaviour to social and non-social challenges is important for
successfully navigating variable environments. Social competence, ie adaptive behavioural …