ReviewAnimal cognition2018
The detour paradigm in animal cognition.
Review in Animal cognition, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Individual differences in inhibitory control may influence how endangered eels deal with river barriers during migration.Animal cognition · 2026Article
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- Generalist vs. specialist: cognition and behavioral flexibility in Gambusia across habitats.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Unpacking response Inhibition in animals - part 2: an empirical test.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Cognitive performance of dusky damselfish in a detour task with increasing difficulty.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Unpacking response inhibition in animals - part 1: a conceptual framework.Animal cognition · 2026Article
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- Inhibitory control tests in non-human animals: validity, reliability, and perspectives.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
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- Cognitive and behavioral response of mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) to environmental factors: Microplastics, predator cues, and detour design methods.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Field-based assessment of inhibitory control in black-tailed gulls using a cylinder task.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Natural Born Detourers Modern Utility Dog Breeds Show Ancestry-Based Superiority in Social Learning Capacity in a Detour Task.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
- Tit wit: environmental and genetic drivers of cognitive variation along an urbanization gradient.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Lizards and tortoises show evidence of low inhibitory control.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Does the Post-Natal Social Environment Influence Cognitive Development in a Social Gecko?Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Do ecological valid stop signals aid detour performance? A comparison of four bird species.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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Abstract
In this paper, we review one of the oldest paradigms used in animal cognition: the detour paradigm. The paradigm presents the subject with a situation where a direct route to the goal is blocked and a detour must be made to reach it. Often being an ecologically valid and a versatile tool, the detour paradigm has been used to study diverse cognitive skills like insight, social learning, inhibitory control and route planning. Due to the relative ease of administrating detour tasks, the paradigm has lately been used in large-scale comparative studies in order to investigate the evolution of inhibitory control. Here we review the detour paradigm and some of its cognitive requirements, we identify various ecological and contextual factors that might affect detour performance, we also discuss developmental and neurological underpinnings of detour behaviors, and we suggest some methodological approaches to make species comparisons more robust.
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