Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard

doi:10.1007/s10071-018-1194-y

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	Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard
	Qi, Yin 3; , Daniel W. A.1,2; Fu, Jinzhong 3,4; Whiting, Martin J.2
刊名	ANIMAL COGNITION
	2018-07-01
卷号	21 期号:4 页码:595-602
关键词	Discrimination task Eulamprus quoyii Instrumental task Reptile Spatial learning
ISSN号	1435-9448
DOI	10.1007/s10071-018-1194-y
产权排序	1
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	A key question in cognition is whether animals that are proficient in a specific cognitive domain (domain specific hypothesis), such as spatial learning, are also proficient in other domains (domain general hypothesis) or whether there is a trade-off. Studies testing among these hypotheses are biased towards mammals and birds. To understand constraints on the evolution of cognition more generally, we need broader taxonomic and phylogenetic coverage. We used Australian eastern water skinks (Eulamprus quoyii) with known spatial learning ability in three additional tasks: an instrumental and two discrimination tasks. Under domain specific learning we predicted that lizards that were good at spatial learning would perform less well in the discrimination tasks. Conversely, we predicted that lizards that did not meet our criterion for spatial learning would likewise perform better in discrimination tasks. Lizards with domain general learning should perform approximately equally well (or poorly) in these tasks. Lizards classified as spatial learners performed no differently to non-spatial learners in both the instrumental and discrimination learning tasks. Nevertheless, lizards were proficient in all tasks. Our results reveal two patterns: domain general learning in spatial learners and domain specific learning in non-spatial learners. We suggest that delineating learning into domain general and domain specific may be overly simplistic and we need to instead focus on individual variation in learning ability, which ultimately, is likely to play a key role in fitness. These results, in combination with previously published work on this species, suggests that this species has behavioral flexibility because they are competent across multiple cognitive domains and are capable of reversal learning.
学科主题	Animal Sciences
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WOS关键词	SIDE-BLOTCHED LIZARDS ; SPATIAL MEMORY ; BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY ; REPRODUCTIVE TACTICS ; EVOLUTION ; INTELLIGENCE ; HIPPOCAMPUS ; PERFORMANCE ; STRATEGIES ; COGNITION
WOS研究方向	Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
WOS记录号	WOS:000435587400012
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.75.237.14/handle/351003/30219]
专题	食品安全与环境治理领域_中国科学院环境与应用微生物重点实验室
作者单位	1.Univ New South Wales, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Ecol & Evolut Res Ctr, Sydney, NSW 2031, Australia; 2.Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, Peoples R China; 4.Univ Guelph, Dept Integrat Biol, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Qi, Yin,, Daniel W. A.,Fu, Jinzhong,et al. Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard[J]. ANIMAL COGNITION,2018,21(4):595-602.
APA	Qi, Yin,, Daniel W. A.,Fu, Jinzhong,&Whiting, Martin J..(2018).Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard.ANIMAL COGNITION,21(4),595-602.
MLA	Qi, Yin,et al."Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard".ANIMAL COGNITION 21.4(2018):595-602.