Performance of goats in a detour and a problem-solving test following long-term cognitive test exposure.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive research in long-lived species commonly involves using the same animals in different experiments. It is unclear whether the participation in cognitive tests can notably alter the performance of individuals in subsequent conceptually different tests. We therefore investigated whether exposure to cognitive tests affects future test performance of goats. We used three treatment groups: goats with long-term exposure to human-presented object-choice tests (for visual discrimination and reversal learning tests + cognitive test battery), goats that were isolated as for the test exposure but received a reward from the experimenter without being administered the object-choice tests, and goats that were isolated but neither received a reward nor were administered the tests. All treatment g

SUBMITTER: Rosenberger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527204 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature