Repeatability and heritability of inhibitory control performance in wild toutouwai (Petroica longipes)

E McCallum, RC Shaw - Royal Society Open Science, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite increasing interest in the evolution of inhibitory control, few studies have examined
the validity of widespread testing paradigms, the long-term repeatability and the heritability …

Group size and social rank predict inhibitory control in spotted hyaenas

L Johnson-Ulrich, KE Holekamp - Animal Behaviour, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•For hyaenas, living in larger groups may demand greater inhibitory
control.•Cohort size was a stronger predictor of inhibitory control than overall group …

Personality traits covary with individual differences in inhibitory abilities in 2 species of fish

T Lucon-Xiccato, G Montalbano, C Bertolucci - Current Zoology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 in teleost fish: a methodological and conceptual review

T Lucon-Xiccato - Animal Cognition, 2024 - Springer
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 in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti

M Tomasek, M Stark, V Dufour, A Jordan - Animal Cognition, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Ontogeny and personality affect inhibitory control in guppies, Poecilia reticulata

BB Savaşçı, T Lucon-Xiccato, A Bisazza - Animal Behaviour, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Social environment affects inhibitory control via developmental plasticity in a fish

T Lucon-Xiccato, G Montalbano, AR Reddon… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Male and female cichlid fish show cognitive inhibitory control ability

ML Brandão, AMTA Fernandes… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Are lizards capable of inhibitory control? Performance on a semi-transparent version of the cylinder task in five species of Australian skinks

B Szabo, S Hoefer, MJ Whiting - Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Sensory differences mediate species variation in detour task performance

M Santacà, M Busatta, T Lucon-Xiccato, A Bisazza - Animal behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …