The impact of learning opportunities on the development of learning and decision-making: an experiment with passerine birds
The impact of learning opportunities on the development of learning and decision-making: an experiment with passerine birds
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学习机会对学习和决策发展的影响：雀形目鸟类的实验
DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2019.0496
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
J. Morand‐Ferron
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作者：
Isabel Rojas‐Ferrer;J. Morand‐Ferron
Developmental context has been shown to influence learning abilities later in life, namely through experiments with nutritional and/or environmental constraints (i.e. lack of enrichment). However, little is known about the extent to which opportunities for learning affect the development of animal cognition, even though such opportunities are known to influence human cognitive development. We exposed young zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata) (n = 26) to one of three experimental conditions, i.e. an environment where (i) colour cues reliably predicted the presence of food (associative learning), (ii) a combination of two-colour cues reliably predicted the presence of food (conditional learning), or (iii) colour cues were non-informative (control). After conducting two different discrimination tasks, our results showed that experience with predictive cues can cause increased choice accuracy and decision-making speed. Our first learning task showed that individuals in the associative learning treatment outperformed the control treatment, while task 2 showed that individuals in the conditional learning treatment had shorter latencies when making choices compared with the control treatment. We found no support for a speed–accuracy trade-off. This dataset provides a rare longitudinal and experimental examination of the effect of predictive versus non-predictive cues during development on the cognition of adult animals. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’.
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2015-10
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作者：
Douglas M. Bates;M. Maechler;Ben Bolker;Steven C. Walker
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Douglas M. Bates;M. Maechler;Ben Bolker;Steven C. Walker
影响因子：
8.8
作者：
Dall SR;Bell AM;Bolnick DI;Ratnieks FL
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Ratnieks FL