The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Behavioural and cognitive processes play important roles in mediating an individual's interactions with its environment. Yet, while there is a vast literature on repeatable individual differences in behaviour, relatively little is known about the repeatability of cognitive performance. To further our understanding of the evolution of cognition, we gathered 44 studies on individual performance of 25 species across six animal classes and used meta-analysis to assess whether cognitive performance is repeatable. We compared repeatability (R) in performance (1) on the same task presented at different times (temporal repeatability), and (2) on different tasks that measured the same putative cognitive ability (contextual repeatability). We also addressed whether R estimates were inf

SUBMITTER: Cauchoix M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6107569 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature