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Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task
| العنوان: | Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task |
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| المؤلفون: | Ella McCallum, Rachael C. Shaw |
| المصدر: | Animal Cognition, Vol 27, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Zoology LCC:Consciousness. Cognition |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Self-control, Spatial discounting, Inhibitory control, Delay of gratification, Spatiotemporal choice, Intertemporal choice, Zoology, QL1-991, Consciousness. Cognition, BF309-499 |
| الوصف: | Abstract Self-control allows animals to resist instant gratification and invest more time and/or energy in better outcomes. However, widespread temporal self-control tasks lack ecological validity for many species, and few studies have explored whether self-control can be measured in the wild. We used a spatial discounting task resembling natural foraging decisions to measure self-control in wild toutouwai (Petroica longipes), a songbird endemic to New Zealand. Birds chose between a near, low-quality food item and a high-quality food item further away. Toutouwai showed striking individual variation in their self-control abilities. Validation tests suggested that our task reliably measured self-control in a spatial foraging context. However, individual-level performance was confounded by food preferences and the satiation and/or learning effects associated with increasing trial number, limiting the applicability of this task as a measure of individual variation in self-control. Nonetheless, we found no correlation between an individual’s self-control and their inhibitory control measured using a detour task, suggesting that self-control is a distinct ability from the suppression of impulsive motor actions in toutouwai. This study demonstrates for the first time that a bird is capable of self-control in a spatial context and provides suggestions for how future researchers may robustly quantify individual differences in self-control in the wild. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1435-9456 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1435-9456 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10071-024-01911-4 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/2288633184b84a54a96bafad5f54f7ed |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.2288633184b84a54a96bafad5f54f7ed |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 14359456 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s10071-024-01911-4 |