The relationship between learning speed and personality is age- and task-dependent in red junglefowl.

ABSTRACT:

Abstract

Cognition is fundamental to animals' lives and an important source of phenotypic variation. Nevertheless, research on individual variation in animal cognition is still limited. Further, although individual cognitive abilities have been suggested to be linked to personality (i.e., consistent behavioral differences among individuals), few studies have linked performance across multiple cognitive tasks to personality traits. Thus, the interplays between cognition and personality are still unclear. We therefore investigated the relationships between an important aspect of cognition, learning, and personality, by exposing young and adult red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) to multiple learning tasks (discriminative, reversal, and spatial learning) and personality assays (nove

SUBMITTER: Zidar J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182743 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature