ArticleAnimal cognition2019
Unpredictable environments enhance inhibitory control in pheasants.
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- Do ecological valid stop signals aid detour performance? A comparison of four bird species.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Genetic and context-specific effects on individual inhibitory control performance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Article
- Repeatability and heritability of inhibitory control performance in wild toutouwai (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Environmental change or choice during early rearing improves behavioural adaptability in laying hen chicks.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Validation of a battery of inhibitory control tasks reveals a multifaceted structure in non-human primates.PeerJ · 2022Article
- The lag-time constraint for behavioural plasticity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Heritability and correlations among learning and inhibitory control traits.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The ability to control impulsive actions is an important executive function that is central to the self-regulation of behaviours and, in humans, can have important implications for mental and physical health. One key factor that promotes individual differences in inhibitory control (IC) is the predictability of environmental information experienced during development (i.e. reliability of resources and social trust). However, environmental predictability can also influence motivational and other cognitive abilities, which may therefore confound interpretations of the mechanisms underlying IC. We investigated the role of environmental predictability, food motivation and cognition on IC. We reared pheasant chicks, Phasianus colchicus, under standardised conditions, in which birds experienced environments that differed in their spatial predictability. We systematically manipulated spatial predictability during their first 8 weeks of life, by either moving partitions daily to random locations (unpredictable environment) or leaving them in fixed locations (predictable environment). We assessed motivation by presenting pheasants with two different foraging tasks that measured their dietary breadth and persistence to acquire inaccessible food rewards, as well as recording their latencies to acquire a freely available baseline worm positioned adjacent to each test apparatus, their body condition (mass/tarsus
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