ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014
Visuospatial selective attention in chickens.
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- Assessing good physical health and resilience as a foundation for positive welfare in chickens.Poultry science · 2026Review
- Evolutionarily old brainstem neurons are required for the control of selective spatial attention.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Neuronal correlates of endogenous selective attention in the endbrain of crows.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Volitional spatial attention is lateralized in crows.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Trichotomy revisited: A monolithic theory of attentional control.Vision research · 2024Article
- Reward history modulates visual attention in an avian model.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Costs and benefits of voluntary attention in crows.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Exogenous and endogenous spatial attention in crows.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The Ecological View of Selective Attention.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- Oscillations in the central brain ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Behavioral and neuronal study of inhibition of return in barn owls.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Endogenous and exogenous control of visuospatial selective attention in freely behaving mice.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Crows control working memory before and after stimulus encoding.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- A review of environmental enrichment for laying hens during rearing in relation to their behavioral and physiological development.Poultry science · 2019Review
- Affect-Driven Attention Biases as Animal Welfare Indicators: Review and Methods.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2018Review
- Selective attention without a neocortex.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2018Review
- When uncertain, does human self-motion decision-making fully utilize complete information?Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Space-Specific Deficits in Visual Orientation Discrimination Caused by Lesions in the Midbrain Stimulus Selection Network.Current biology : CB · 2017Article
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Abstract
Voluntary control of attention promotes intelligent, adaptive behaviors by enabling the selective processing of information that is most relevant for making decisions. Despite extensive research on attention in primates, the capacity for selective attention in nonprimate species has never been quantified. Here we demonstrate selective attention in chickens by applying protocols that have been used to characterize visual spatial attention in primates. Chickens were trained to localize and report the vertical position of a target in the presence of task-relevant distracters. A spatial cue, the location of which varied across individual trials, indicated the horizontal, but not vertical, position of the upcoming target. Spatial cueing improved localization performance: accuracy (d') increased and reaction times decreased in a space-specific manner. Distracters severely impaired perceptual performance, and this impairment was greatly reduced by spatial cueing. Signal detection analysis with an "indecision" model demonstrated that spatial cueing significantly increased choice certainty in localizing targets. By contrast, error-aversion certainty (certainty of not making an error) remained essentially constant across cueing protocols, target contrasts, and individuals. The results show that chickens shift spatial attention rapidly and dynamically, following principles of stimulus selection that closely parallel those documented in primates. The findings suggest that the mechanisms that control attention have been conserved through evolution, and establish chickens--a highly visual species that is easily trained and amenable to cutting-edge experimental technologies--as an attractive model for linking behavior to neural mechanisms of selective attention.
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