Highlights•For hyaenas, living in larger groups may demand greater inhibitory control.•Cohort size was a stronger predictor of inhibitory control than overall group …
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 …
Inhibitory control (IC) plays a central role in behaviour control allowing an individual to resist external lures and internal predispositions. While IC has been consistently investigated in …
Cognitive flexibility, the ability to modify one's decision rules to adapt to a new situation, has been extensively studied in many species. In fish, though, data on cognitive flexibility are …
Highlights•We studied the effects of ontogeny and personality on inhibitory control in a teleost.•Fish of all ages tested showed inhibitory control in the cylinder task.•10-and 90-day …
Highlights•We tested phenotypic plasticity of inhibitory control due to the social environment.•New-born guppies were raised in groups differing in size or stability.•Guppies …
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Inhibitory control is a way to infer cognitive flexibility in animals by inhibiting a behavioral propensity to obtain a reward. Here we tested whether there are differences in inhibitory …
Inhibitory control, the inhibition of prepotent actions, is essential for higher-order cognitive processes such as planning, reasoning, and self-regulation. Individuals and species differ in …
Animal species differ considerably in their ability to detour around a see-through obstacle to reach a goal positioned behind it. This variation is commonly assumed to derive from …