Cognitive ecology in the wild—Advances and challenges in avian cognition research

VV Pravosudov - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Animal cognition traditionally studies in the lab.•Lab studies cannot address
many ecological and evolutionary questions.•Field studies provide opportunities to study …

Artificial selection for reversal learning reveals limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility in great tits (Parus major)

K van den Heuvel, JL Quinn… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cognitive flexibility controls how animals respond to changing environmental conditions.
Individuals within species vary considerably in cognitive flexibility but the micro-evolutionary …

Cognitive flexibility in the wild: Individual differences in reversal learning are explained primarily by proactive interference, not by sampling strategies, in two passerine …

J Morand-Ferron, MS Reichert, JL Quinn - Learning & Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Behavioural flexibility allows animals to adjust to changes in their environment. Although the
cognitive processes that explain flexibility have been relatively well studied in psychology …

Exploration and spatial cognition show long-term repeatability but no heritability in the Aegean wall lizard

G De Meester, P Pafilis, G Vasilakis, R Van Damme - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•We tested repeatability and heritability of exploration and cognition in
lizards.•Only exploration and spatial learning were moderately repeatable between …

Persistence is key: investigating innovative problem solving by Asian elephants using a novel multi-access box

SL Jacobson, A Puitiza, RJ Snyder, A Sheppard… - Animal Cognition, 2022 - Springer
Innovative problem solving is considered a hallmark measure of behavioral flexibility as it
describes behavior by which an animal manipulates its environment in a novel way to reach …

Food quality influences behavioural flexibility and cognition in wild house mice

E Gorshkova, S Kyomen, M Kaucká, A Guenther - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Environmental change is frequent. To adjust and survive, animals need behavioural
flexibility. Recently, cognitive flexibility has emerged as a driving force for adjusting to …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibitory control performance is repeatable over time and across contexts in a wild bird population

GL Davidson, MS Reichert, JR Coomes, IG Kulahci… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Inhibitory control is one of several cognitive mechanisms required for self-regulation,
decision making and attention towards tasks. Inhibitory control is expected to influence …

Development of “personality” in the domestic cat: A longitudinal study

A Urrutia, O Bánszegi, P Szenczi… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although individual differences in the behavior of animals, sometimes referred to as
personality, have recently received considerable attention, the development of such …

Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches

CT Lambert, PK Sahu, CB Sturdy, LM Guillette - Learning & Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Among-individual variation in performance on cognitive tasks is ubiquitous across species
that have been examined, and understanding the evolution of cognitive abilities requires …

Genetic and context‐specific effects on individual inhibitory control performance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

PM Prentice, A Thornton, N Kolm… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Among‐individual variation in cognitive traits, widely assumed to have evolved under
adaptive processes, is increasingly being demonstrated across animal taxa. As variation …