Investigating the relationship between physical cognitive tasks and a social cognitive task in a wild bird.

ABSTRACT: Despite considerable research into the structure of cognition in non-human animal species, there is still much debate as to whether animal cognition is organised as a series of discrete domains or an overarching general cognitive factor. In humans, the existence of general intelligence is widely accepted, but less work has been undertaken in animal psychometrics to address this question. The relatively few studies on non-primate animal species that do investigate the structure of cognition rarely include tasks assessing social cognition and focus instead on physical cognitive tasks. In this study, we tested 36 wild Western Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis) on a battery of three physical (associative learning, spatial memory, and numerical assessment) and one social (observat

SUBMITTER: Blackburn G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11281958 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature