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Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish.

ABSTRACT: Individual fitness often depends on the ability to inhibit behaviours not adapted to a given situation. However, inhibitory control can vary greatly between individuals of the same species. We investigated a mechanism that might maintain this variability in zebrafish (Danio rerio). We demonstrate that inhibitory control correlates with cerebral lateralization, the tendency to process information with one brain hemisphere or the other. Individuals that preferentially observed a social stimulus with the right eye and thus processed social information with the left brain hemisphere, inhibited foraging behaviour more efficiently. Therefore, selective pressures that maintain lateralization variability in populations might provide indirect selection for variability in inhibitory control. Our study suggests that individual cognitive differences may result from complex multi-trait selection mechanisms.

SUBMITTER: Lucon-Xiccato T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7480152 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish.

Lucon-Xiccato Tyrone T Montalbano Giulia G Dadda Marco M Bertolucci Cristiano C

Biology letters 20200805 8

Individual fitness often depends on the ability to inhibit behaviours not adapted to a given situation. However, inhibitory control can vary greatly between individuals of the same species. We investigated a mechanism that might maintain this variability in zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>). We demonstrate that inhibitory control correlates with cerebral lateralization, the tendency to process information with one brain hemisphere or the other. Individuals that preferentially observed a social stim ...[more]

PMID: 32750269

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Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish.

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Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish.

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